Jupiter Hammon Quotes

• He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  White   Black   Judgment  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  White   Two   Heaven  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  God   Men   Mind  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

  1908

• Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  Forever   Sin   Satan  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  Pain   Believe   Use  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  Trying  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• 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.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  Book   Thinking   People  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  Heaven   Black   Slave  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

  1024

• But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  Unfaithful   Stealing   Stealing Cars  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  Book   Reading   Would Be  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

  1701

• I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many white people have enjoyed, for which I desire to bless God, and pray that he may bless those who have given them to me.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  Believe   White   People  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• 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.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  Kindness   Judging   Despise  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• 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.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  World   Drink   Masters  

  Jupiter Hammon's address to the Negroes in the state of New York, 1787.

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• Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  Hurt   Being Free   Slave  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

  439

• We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  Heaven   World   Littles  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• 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.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  Sleep   Mind   Study  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• 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.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  War   White   People  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• Good servants frequently make good masters.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  Masters   Servant  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• 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?

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  Jupiter Hammon

  Men   Wicked   Saws  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  Next   Forbidden   You Again  

  Jupiter Hammon, Oscar Wegelin (1970). “America's First Negro Poet: The Complete Works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”

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• All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  Unfaithful   Masters   Unfaithfulness  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• 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.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  Thinking   Wicked   Care  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

  1080

• It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  Eye   Men   Faithful  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• 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.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  Unfaithful   Excuse   Masters  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

  4528

• When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants.

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  Jupiter Hammon

  War   White   Numbers  

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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