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 ju…

- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

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.

- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

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

- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

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

- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

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

- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

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.

- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

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

- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

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

- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of my fath…

- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.