Adam Clayton Powell Quotes & Sayings

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds. — Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting. — Adam Clayton Powell III

Mix a conviction with a man and ... — 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.

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. — Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

It's never the right time to take a particular stand. — Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

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. — Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

There is no future for a people who deny their past. — Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Unless man is commited to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labours in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality — Adam Clayton Powell III

I am a mystic. I believe in hearing the inaudible and touching the intangible and seeing the invisible. — Adam Clayton Powell III