I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother
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.
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It’s never the right time to take a particular stand.
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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.
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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.
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No one can say Christianity has failed. It has never been tried.
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The disciplined resentment of my father and mother, and the power of the mass action of the church.
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We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.
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A man’s respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
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There is no future for a people who deny their past.
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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.
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