Ballot Or Bullet Quotes

#1. It's up to us to remember how multifaceted we are and to celebrate all those odd little angles we have which make us who we are.

Viola Shipman

#2. There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.

Benjamin Disraeli

#3. No," Scott's voice cracked, "Carrie look at me."
Carrie bit down on her lip and tried to focus on the healing process. The usual sensation of the energy flowing through her finger tips was a weak haze and it completely disappeared when Scott whispered, defeated, "Carrie, please.

Julia Barkey

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

Malcolm X

#5. Life is very short ... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.

William Merritt Chase

#6. 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

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

Abraham Lincoln

#8. 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

#9. Consists of knowledge, judgment, creativity, and practical skills as enacted in real life

Anonymous

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Malcolm X

#12. 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

#13. The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln

#14. Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.

Abraham Lincoln

#15. Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it.

Eva Ibbotson

#16. They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

Saul Alinsky