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Alexander Crummell Quotes

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.

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, Teacher, Flower
Alexander Crummell (1969). “Africa and America”, p.376, Рипол Классик

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

Alexander Crummell
Strive

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
Flower, Odor, World
Alexander Crummell (1861). “The relations and duties of free colored men in America to Africa: A letter to Charles B. Dunbar ...”, p.49

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

Alexander Crummell
Integrity, Men, Temptation

We read the future by the past.

Alexander Crummell
Past
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

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
Spring, Greatness, Sky

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
Culture, Inferiority, World

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

Alexander Crummell
Men, Color, Differences
Alexander Crummell (1861). “The relations and duties of free colored men in America to Africa: A letter to Charles B. Dunbar ...”, p.31

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

Alexander Crummell
Responsibility, Reflection, Sense Of Responsibility

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
Soul, Listening, Utterance
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

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

Alexander Crummell
Success, Spring, Real
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

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

Alexander Crummell
Civilization, Fruit, Bases

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