Any way, any form necessary to defend himself; Negro should reserve the right to do that just the same as others have the right to do it.

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

Revolution is always based on land. Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of coffee.

It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate.

If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.

Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and the position of the Afro- American or negro in American history. [He] has done a remarkable job in fighting for rights of black people in this country. On the other hand, he probably hasn't done as much as he could or as much as he should because he is the most independent negro politician in this country.