Alexander Crummell Quotes

We read the future by the past.

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.