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.
It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things. - Alexander Crummell
It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.
- 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 nation, of a rare… - 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 nation, of a rare…
Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it. - Alexander Crummell
Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.
Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death. - Alexander Crummell
Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.
Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe. - Alexander Crummell
Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.
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. - Alexander Crummell
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.
Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself. - Alexander Crummell
Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.
All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society. - Alexander Crummell
All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.
Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity. - Alexander Crummell
Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.
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