Top 25 Adam Clayton Powell Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Adam Clayton Powell

#1. 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.

#2. Laugh out-loud funny" by a "Master Storyteller".

Leslie Davis Guccione

#3. 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

#4. The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.

Emily James Smith Putnam

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

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

#6. 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.

#7. Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer but never judge it.

Nick Bantock

#8. 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

#9. The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things.

Jasmine Guy

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

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

#11. I would not want to form a partnership with an architect who has only a little knowledge of building or a broker who has a limited knowledge of the stock market. Still, we form what we hope to be permanent relationships in love with people who have hardly any knowledge of what love is.

Leo Buscaglia

#12. One thing I've learned from 35 years in the classroom is that people learn best when they are laughing, when they are emotionally hit, that it's both the brain and the heart.

Robert Reich

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

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

#14. Mix a conviction with a man and ...

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

#15. The miracle," Claire said, "is that anybody stays together.

Paul Russell

#16. Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.

Fernand Braudel

#17. I won't beg for anyone's love, and yours is no exception.

Elle Aycart

#18. They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#19. 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.