Alexander Crummell Quotes

"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."

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

"Error moves with quick feet and truthmust never be lagging behind."

"Error moves with quick feet and truth must never be lagging behind."

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

"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."

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