Alexander Crummell quotes
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“Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.”
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“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 CrummellSource : Alexander Crummell (1969). “Africa and America”, p.376, Рипол Классик
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“All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.”
-- Alexander CrummellSource : Alexander Crummell, John R. Oldfield, Southern Texts Society (1995). “Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South”, p.146, University of Virginia Press
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“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.”
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“Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.”
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“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 CrummellSource : Alexander Crummell, John R. Oldfield, Southern Texts Society (1995). “Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South”, p.152, University of Virginia Press
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“It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.”
-- Alexander Crummell#Responsibility Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Sense Of Responsibility Quotes
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“Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.”
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“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 CrummellSource : Alexander Crummell (1861). “The relations and duties of free colored men in America to Africa: A letter to Charles B. Dunbar ...”, p.49
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“We read the future by the past.”
-- Alexander CrummellSource : Alexander Crummell, John R. Oldfield, Southern Texts Society (1995). “Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South”, p.164, University of Virginia Press
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“Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.”
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“Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.”
-- Alexander CrummellSource : Alexander Crummell (1861). “The relations and duties of free colored men in America to Africa: A letter to Charles B. Dunbar ...”, p.31
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