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1957 speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Give Us the Ballot" is a 1957 speech by
Martin Luther King Jr. advocating voting rights for
African Americans in the
United States. King delivered the speech at the
Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom gathering at the
Lincoln Memorial in
Washington, D.C., on May 17.
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In the key section of the speech King listed some of the changes that would result by African Americans regaining voting rights:
- "Give us the ballot and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights ...
- "Give us the ballot and we will no longer plead to the federal government for passage of an anti-lynching law ...
- "Give us the ballot and we will fill our legislative halls with men of good will ...
- "Give us the ballot and we will place judges on the benches of the South who will do justly and love mercy ...
- "Give us the ballot and we will quietly and nonviolently, without rancor or bitterness, implement
the Supreme Court's decision of May 17, 1954."
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It is one of
King's major speeches.
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