Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Quotes

The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer-he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of my father and mother, and the power of the mass action of the church.

It's never the right time to take a particular stand.

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

No one can say Christianity has failed. It has never been tried.

There is no future for a people who deny their past.

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.

Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of God.