Alexander Crummell Born : March 3, 1819 Died : September 10, 1898 Browse All Authors Top 12 quotes by 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 be built up on flowers. Alexander Crummell strength flower teacher Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity. Alexander Crummell temptation integrity men 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. Alexander Crummell greatness sky spring 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 inferiority culture world 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 odor flower world Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself. Alexander Crummell strive We read the future by the past. Alexander Crummell past Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it. Alexander Crummell bases fruit civilization Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe. Alexander Crummell differences color men It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things. Alexander Crummell sense-of-responsibility responsibility reflection All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society. Alexander Crummell real success spring 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 of their utterances. Alexander Crummell utterance soul listening
