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 More Quotes by Alexander Crummell More Quotes From 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 strengthflowerteacher Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity. Alexander Crummell temptationintegritymen 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 greatnessskyspring 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 inferioritycultureworld 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 basesfruitcivilization Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe. Alexander Crummell differencescolormen It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things. Alexander Crummell sense-of-responsibilityresponsibilityreflection All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society. Alexander Crummell realsuccessspring 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 utterancesoullistening
