Alexander Crummell Quotes

#1. It is a sad reflection ... that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.

Alexander Crummell

#2. If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.

Alexander Crummell

#3. Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.

Alexander Crummell

#4. All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.

Alexander Crummell

#5. Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.

Alexander Crummell

#6. We should let our godliness exhale like th odor of flowers. We should live for the good of our kind, and strive for the salvation of the world.

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#7. Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

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#8. We read the future by the past.

Alexander Crummell

#9. It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.

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#10. The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies.

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#11. Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

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#12. Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.

Alexander Crummell