Alexander Crummell Quote

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.

Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South (ed. University of Virginia Press, 1995) - ISBN: 9780813916026