“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” - Abraham Lincoln

Oct 13, 2020 · 6:29 AM UTC

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I’m laughing at reading everybody’s responses and okay I get the irony. But I still think he would’ve said it because the larger point remains. Transformations created at the ballot box are more profound for a society in the long run than is the assassination of any one person.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
In the UK it’s all about the ballet 🩰
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Wow, how'd that work out for him?
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Replying to @marwilliamson
“Sorry, Abe, no #M4A on the ballot or this bullet.” - John Wilkes Booth
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Replying to @marwilliamson
I think John Wilkes Booth gave a rather compelling counter-argument.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Lincoln was wrong; that bullet fundamentally changed the lives of every black american. 40 acres and a mule was the Lincoln-proposed post-slavery reparation plan. It would have happened too, but his VP hated it and after he died, it never happened.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
"A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box." —Frederick Douglass
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Replying to @marwilliamson
How'd that one hold up?
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Really? Do you not remember what happened with a bullet and Lincoln? It went right through that ballot.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
You are firing BLANKS when you are given NO REAL CHOICES on the Ballot.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Apparently Abe didn’t see 2020 and the utter corruption of both of our parties coming.
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