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.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.