“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
Have you ever read/listened to Malcolm X's "Ballot or the Bullet" speech? Just curious. I hope everyone reading this has a day filled with love and light
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Replying to @marwilliamson
marianne noooooo
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lmao of ALL THE PEOPLE come on
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Tell that to the back of Abe’s head.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
... says the man who was shot and killed 😔 If only “the pen [was] mightier than the sword”. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Replying to @marwilliamson
I feel like you need a refresher on the history of the abolition movement, the civil war, reconstruction, and Jim Crow.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Just vote John Wilkes Boothe out. That's what I would have done were I Ave Lincoln.
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"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." Mao
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Replying to @marwilliamson
unless the DNC cheats and saddles us with a declining corporate shill
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