“It'll be the ballot or it'll be the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death. And if you're not ready to pay that price don't use the word freedom in your vocabulary.”

Source: The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Detroit, Michigan (12 April 1964)

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