A Quote by Malcolm X

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

Malcolm X

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Afraid Alley Back Ballot Bullet Cotton Expression Get Get Back Got Like Patch Should Use

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Malcolm X
American - Activist
May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965

The strong are always free by virtue of their superior strength. So long as government is a mere contest as to which of two parties shall rule the other, the weaker must always succumb. And whether the contest be carried on with ballots or bullets, the principle is the same; for under the theory of government now prevailing, the ballot either signifies a bullet, or it signifies nothing. And no one can consistently use a ballot, unless he intends to use a bullet, if the latter should be needed to insure submission to the former.

Lysander Spooner

A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not within your reach, keep your ballot in your pocket.

Malcolm X

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.

Sarah Vowell

It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

And even if you get shot by a stray bullet, you don't gotta go to no doctor to get it taken out, whoever shot you will take they bullet back! "I believe you have my property!"

Chris Rock

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

Malcolm X

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln

It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls, the gun was loaded. A bullet for family abuse. A bullet for genetic predisposition. A bullet for historical malaise. A bullet for inevitable momentum. The other two bullets are impossible to name, but that doesn't mean the chambers were empty.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln

Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.

Chris Rock

A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Elections have been free and fair with full participation of the people, reinforcing that the ballot is mightier than the bullet.

Anurag Thakur

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

Harvey Milk

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.

Harvey Milk

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.