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Alexander Crummell

Alexander Crummell (March 3, 1819 - September 10, 1898) was a pioneering African-American minister, academic and African nationalist. Ordained as an Episcopal priest in the United States, Crummell went to England in the late 1840s to raise money for his church by lecturing about American slavery. Abolitionists supported his three years of study at Cambridge University, where Crummell developed concepts of pan-Africanism.

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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.

Grasp, Greatness, Large, People, Sky, Spring

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.

Among, Fed, Flower, Strength, Teacher

We read the future by the past.

Future, Past, Read

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

Amid, Integrity, Men, Temptation, Uncultured, Unlearned

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

Power, Reflection, Responsibility, Sad, Sense Of Responsibility

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

Civilized, Color, Condition, Differences, Men

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

Bases, Civilization, Fruit, Labor

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.

Clamors, Listening, Soul, Utterance, Utterances

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

Culture, Hold, Inferiority, Place, Things, World

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.

Flower, Kind, Let, Odor, Salvation, World

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

Real, Spring, Springs, Success

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

Make, Strive