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

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

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

- Alexander Crummell

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

- Alexander Crummell

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

- Alexander Crummell

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

- Alexander Crummell

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

- 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.

- Alexander Crummell