Ballot Or The Bullet Malcolm X Quotes

#1. The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he comes as the subduer of Antichrist. Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious.

Walter Benjamin

#2. Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected

Robert Orben

#3. 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

#4. Literature cannot be reality in a same way as literature cannot be idealistic.

Shankar Lamichhane

#5. 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

#6. Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher; and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately, it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Will Durant

#7. I'm learning not to hope for what I can't control ...

Leila Meacham

#8. Develop and exercise the ability to understand your partner's point of view so completely that you're able to believe them. Keep listening until you get their point of view so entirely that you understand how it is true for them.

Beth Banning

#9. When pain is intense, you are at a climax. You can then see the light of transcendence.

Debasish Mridha

#10. You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

Jane Goodall

#11. Memory is what you did. Life is what you're doing.

Deacon Jones

#12. 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

#13. Your eyes, they shine so bright
I wanna save that light
I can't escape this now
Unless you show me how

Anth

#14. Some days I don't know what is greater.
My wisdom, or my stupidity.

Sanober Khan

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

Malcolm X

#16. ... most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.

Yvon Chouinard

#17. It's amazing ... to enjoy the results of your labor.

Michael Rady