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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.

Source: On the Founding of the Negro Academy, Mar 1897.
-- Alexander Crummell, ( 1819-1898), US religious leader; He was an early advocate of colonization of Liberia and an outspoken critic of the limited educational opportunities available to African Americans.

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