Ballot Quotes
135 quotes by 107 authors
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In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box.
— Unknown Author
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Meet the sun every morning as if it could cast a ballot.
— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
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I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that little walk to…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box.
— Rush Limbaugh
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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…
— Malcolm X
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If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would. [. . .] Only 7% of Americans are hunters. That means there…
— Wayne Pacelle
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Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship,
— Joseph Estrada
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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…
— Saul Alinsky
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We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no…
— Francisco Franco
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In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry,…
— Daniel Guerin
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There is no freedom that I would grant to any man that I would refuse to woman, and there is no freedom that I would…
— Benjamin Tucker
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Well, it all began with Democracy. Before we had the vote all the power was in the hands of rich people. If you had money…
— Tony Benn
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There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can…
— Walter Reuther
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Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in…
— Neil Kinnock
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
— E. Franklin Frazier
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Too many of us dissipate our energy by being 'for all good causes,' attending meetings and passing resolutions, organizing and presenting petitions — all this…
— Ammon Hennacy
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South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.
— Catherine Helen Spence
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In elections, you can't tell the outcome until you open the ballot boxes.
— Katsuya Okada
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What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist — the right to life as the rich woman has the…
— Rose Schneiderman
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The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the…
— John Jay Hooker
Who Wrote These Ballot Quotes
107 authors contributed a total of 135 Ballot Quotes, led by these top contributors: