Alexander Crummell Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

11 Famous Quotes by Alexander Crummell
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“Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.”
Labor Quotes
“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.”
Listening Quotes
“Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Error moves with quick feet and truthmust never be lagging behind.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Strive to make something of yourself; then strive to make the most of yourself.”
Miscellaneous 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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Error moves with quick feet and truth must never be lagging behind.”
Miscellaneous Quotes