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> [It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-crummell/it-is-a-sad-reflection-that-a-sense-of-responsibility-which-comes/)

[Alexander Crummell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-crummell/)

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## More by Alexander Crummell

> [The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-crummell/the-greatness-of-peoples-springs-from-their-ability-to-grasp-the/)

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> [All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-crummell/all-real-success-springs-from-that-inward-might-which-we-exert-upon/)

[Alexander Crummell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-crummell/)

> [It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-crummell/it-is-only-by-closing-the-ears-of-the-soul-or-by-listening-too/)

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> [We read the future by the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-crummell/we-read-the-future-by-the-past/)

[Alexander Crummell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-crummell/)

> [Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-crummell/labor-is-the-fruit-of-civilization-not-the-basis-of-it/)

[Alexander Crummell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-crummell/)

> [Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-crummell/strive-to-make-something-of-yourself-then-strive-to-make-the-most-of/)

[Alexander Crummell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-crummell/)

> [If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-crummell/if-you-are-to-be-leaders-teachers-and-guides-among-your-people-you/)

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> [We should let our godliness exhale like th odor of flowers. We should live for the good of our kind, and strive for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-crummell/we-should-let-our-godliness-exhale-like-th-odor-of-flowers-we-should/)

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> [Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-crummell/those-too-impressed-with-material-things-cannot-hold-their-place-n/)

[Alexander Crummell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-crummell/)

> [It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-crummell/it-is-a-sad-reflection-that-a-sense-of-responsibility-which-comes/)

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> [Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-crummell/color-is-nothing-anywhere-civilized-condition-differences-men-all/)

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> [Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-crummell/let-our-posterity-know-that-we-their-ancestors-uncultured-and/)

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