Soul-force Quotes
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Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.
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The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.
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Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
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The use of violence in our struggle would be both impractical and immoral. To meet hate with retaliatory hate would do nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love; we must meet physical force with soul force. Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding.
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Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.
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History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
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It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.
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It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: "We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer".
