Adam Clayton Powell, Jr

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr (1908-1972) was a US pastor, politician and civil rights leader. He was pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church who also became member of US House of Representatives.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Mix a conviction with a man and something happens!

- "Minimum Living - Minimum Religion", Keep the Faith, Baby!

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

- "One Must Die for Many", Keep the Faith, Baby!

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

- "Black Power: A Form of Godly Power", Keep the Faith, Baby!

• 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 stoper in his hand.

- "Black Power: A Form of Godly Power", Keep the Faith, Baby!

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

- Keep the Faith, Baby!

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

- "Civil War II", Marching Blacks

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