Alexander Crummell
Alexander Crummell
Alexander Crummellwas 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...
inferiority world culture
Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.
integrity men temptation
Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.
flower world odor
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.
strive
Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.
spring greatness sky
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.
success spring real
All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.