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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.

Alexander Crummell

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Alexander Crummell
Age: 79 †
Born: 1819
Born: March 3
Died: 1898
Died: September 10
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New York City
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