ballot or bullet

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The Ballot or the bullet is a speech written by Malcolm X, a black civil rights fighter. The speech was given in Harlem in 1964. A year later Malcolm x was assassinated by an unknown murder.
Malcolm X was an Islamic priest; whom believed in violence as a political weapon in order to gain independence. In “the Ballot or the Bullet” He speaks to the black people of the United States as a nation. He references to rebellion in other parts of the world. by repeating these epiphoras Malcolm X makes it legal to use violence as a way of gaining a noble goal. The black audience is no longer only fighting for there civil rights; they are also fighting for basic human rights like any other suppressed nation in the world. Making this an issue of human rights Malcolm X forces the rest of the world to involve in this matter.

Malcolm X illustrates that America is in a unique position because she can choose• between “the ballot or the Bullet”. By referencing to America as a person, a she, Malcolm X gives a non-human subject human characteristics. America is now capable of making decisions; she can choose rather or not she wants to give American Negros there independence.