Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?"
Ballots quotes
Ballots
20 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Simone de Beauvoir
Philosopher, Writer
"The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change."
Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death"
Ronald Reagan
Politician, Actor
"The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets."
Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot."
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"The ballot is the only safety."
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"I've been elected numerous times in South Carolina. If I'm on the ballot, I'm going to win South Carolina."
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