Alexander Crummell quotes

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

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

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

It is a sad reflection, that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.

Alexander Crummell

Error moves with quick feet and truth must never be lagging behind.

Alexander Crummell

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

Alexander Crummell

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

Alexander Crummell

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

Alexander Crummell