Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.
Source: Values to a New People, speech given to Working Men's Club, Philadelphia, PA, 1881.
-- 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.