Ballot Or The Bullet Quotes

#1. 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

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

Malcolm X

#3. The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control.

William S. Burroughs

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.

John Wells

#7. The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln

#8. The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the outward, written precepts of the moral and divine laws, but above all lives God's law in concrete reality by perfect and continual union with His will.

Thomas Merton

#9. 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

#10. Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#12. 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

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

Abraham Lincoln

#14. 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

#15. There was no way to save me from life.

Shelly Crane

#16. We've been taught a watered-down version of following Jesus for so long that people think it's Christianity, but it's not biblical.

Francis Chan

#17. Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

Erma Bombeck