The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the … - Alexander Crummell

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You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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