Quotes from Alexander Crummell

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

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.

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

We read the future by the past.