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Malcolm X A Ballot Or A Bullet Analysis
“The Ballot or the Bullet”
Speech by Malcolm X
April 3, 1964, in Cleveland, Ohio at a meeting of the Congress of Racial Equally.
Malcolm x was not successful because he made people having a lot of violence and hate. He caused his outlook to create separation instead of coming together. His purpose of the speech was to convince the black people of America that they needed to start standing up for themselves and fight the American government. He wanted to inform the American government that black was coming for them. A ballot is like a bullet in the sense of them both only being used once for a specific target.
One of Malcolm x quotes explains that if you don’t have any values or opinions that are high enough for you to support yourself, people

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