Alexander Crummell Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

We read the future by the past.

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.

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