Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
303
AUTHOR:
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (1908–72)
QUOTATION:
I take the view that equality is equality … and that I am a member of Congress as good as anybody else. As long as it is within the law, it’s not wrong…. If the law is wrong, change the law.
I do not do any more than any other member of the Congress, but by the Grace of God, I’ll not do less!
ATTRIBUTION:
Representative ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR., press conference and subsequent interview, February 20, 1963.—Neil Hickey and Ed Edwin, Adam Clayton Powell and the Politics of Race, pp. 230–31 (1965).
