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Quotes from Give Us the Ballot — Martin Luther King Jr.

1929–1968 United States

← All quotes by Martin Luther King Jr.

7 quotes

We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.

Give Us the Ballot (1957)

Keep moving. Let nothing slow you up. Move on with dignity and honor and respectability.

Give Us the Ballot (1957)

These men so often have a high blood pressure of words and an anemia of deeds.

Give Us the Ballot (1957)

We must follow nonviolence and love.

Give Us the Ballot (1957)

God is not some Aristotelian Unmoved Mover who merely contemplates upon himself. He is not merely a self-knowing God, but an other-loving God forever working through history for the establishment of His kingdom.

Give Us the Ballot (1957)

I'm talking about the love of God in the hearts of men. I'm talking about a type of love which will cause you to love the person who does the evil deed while hating the deed that the person does. We've got to love.

Give Us the Ballot (1957)

We must work passionately and unrelentingly for the goal of freedom, but we must be sure that our hands are clean in the struggle. We must never struggle with falsehood, hate, or malice. We must never become bitter.

Give Us the Ballot (1957)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Martin Luther King Jr. (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.