As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them. Jupiter Hammon Read Quote
You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime? Jupiter Hammon Read Quote
You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them. Jupiter Hammon Read Quote
We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business. Jupiter Hammon Read Quote
Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is. Jupiter Hammon Read Quote
The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God. Jupiter Hammon Read Quote
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war. Jupiter Hammon Read Quote
It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you shall not be found out. Jupiter Hammon Read Quote
If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth. Jupiter Hammon Read Quote
If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good. Jupiter Hammon Read Quote
