Alexander Crummell

The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people,…

— Alexander Crummell

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

— Alexander Crummell

It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that…

— Alexander Crummell

We read the future by the past.

— Alexander Crummell

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

— Alexander Crummell

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

— Alexander Crummell

If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no…

— Alexander Crummell

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

— Alexander Crummell

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

— Alexander Crummell

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

— Alexander Crummell

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

— Alexander Crummell

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

— Alexander Crummell