Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker links political power and votes directly to gun control.
- In plain terms
- Votes come from guns so guns protect votes.
- What can you take from it?
- Violence often underpins political power.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What protects a vote?
- Is force needed for rights?
Another view
This ignores peaceful elections and rule of law.
More from Robert Mugabe
It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.
Permalink to quote #2 Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.
Permalink to quote #4 Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept will seek to remove.
Permalink to quote #1
Related quotes
I can and shall yield to no call that does not come from the spontaneous action and free will of the nation at large and void of the slightest agency of my own…
Zachary TaylorZachary Taylor quote #2 You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.
Boris YeltsinBoris Yeltsin quote #6 The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organi…
Gerald FordGerald Ford quote #9