Quotes from Adam Clayton Powell

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

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

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

I am a mystic. I believe in hearing the inaudible and touching the intangible and seeing the invisible.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.