Alexander Crummell Quotes

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• Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.
• 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…
• All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.
• 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,…
• Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.
• 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…
• It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.

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