Malcolm X Speech Summary

He wants racism to stop and for the black people to be accepted. He also wants the black people to be treated the same as the white people are being treated. The black people should have the same equality as the white people.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York”. He is saying that we should let freedom ring all over the nation to end civil inequality. Another example is when he states “We will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics will be able to join hands. . .”. He is saying that when we let freedom ring we will become one and civil inequality will end. Malcolm X’s solution to civil inequality was that Afro- Americans need to get involved and also need to defend themselves. Evidence of this is when he said “The time when white people can come in our community and get us to vote for them so they can be our political leaders and tell us what to do and what not to do is long gone”. He is saying that it’s time for Afro-Americans to get involved and end this. Another example is when he said “The economic philosophy of Black Nationalism only means that we should own and operate and control the economy of our community”. He is saying that the Afro-Americans should defend their community by getting involved. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X both had good solutions to end civil inequality.

He thinks that the white man gives opportunities to blacks, but not the good ones. Giving blacks piss poor jobs is not helping anyone. One person is not the whole black community. In document M, he states that if one black man can attend college all blacks should be able to. Most blacks in the 1960’s did not get a college education. In document E, Malcolm X’s Afro-American unity group is trying to educate the black youth, and not let the corrupt school system teach them false lies. The education system caters to the white population. Some black schools are even told to teach false evidence because of the white belief. This is not giving everyone fair education chances. Malcolm X wanted fair rights for everyone, especially

The audience does not have to answer these questions and neither does Malcolm X because they all know that they have nothing to be thankful for (Malcolm X). After, Malcolm X continues to repeat, “It’ll be ballots or it’ll be bullets. It’ll be liberty or it will be death.” He uses the either or fallacy again because he wants to make the audience believe that they truly only have 2 choices, voting for the right politicians or resorting to violence to get what they want (Malcolm X). Malcolm X then tells the audience, “Our mothers and fathers invested sweat and blood. Three hundred and ten years we worked in this country without a dime in return. You let the white man walk around here talking about how rich the country is, but you never stop to think how it got rich so quick. It got rich because you made it rich.” In these lines, he uses pathos and logos. He appeals to logic by bringing up facts about slavery in America, like how it lasted for three hundred and ten years. He appeals to emotion by reminding the audience how much Africans have suffered because of the white man (Malcolm X). Towards the end of his speech, Malcolm X says, “And this time they’re not going like they went last year. They’re not going singing “we shall overcome.” They’re not going with white friends. They’re not going with placards already painted for them. They’re not going with round-trip

Powerful movements require powerful leadership. During the 1960s a push for civil rights developed, and African Americans took various positions. Two strong leaders, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X approached the Civil Rights Movement using different methods. Their speeches reflect the disposition of their tactics. In his speech, “I Have a Dream,” Martin Luther King, Jr. focuses on applying his non-violent philosophy. On the contrary, Malcolm X projects himself in an aggressive tone reflecting the attitudes of Black Nationalists in “Ballot or the Bullet.” These speakers demonstrate their objectives and tone through their use of diction and syntax.

The first device that Malcolm x uses to make his claim that “blacks need to exercise their voting right in either a peaceful or violent manner”, is by using emotional appeals. One example of this is when he states “The year when all of the white political crooks will be right back in your and my community with their false promises, building up our hopes for a letdown, with their trickery and their treachery, with their false promises

April 3, 1964, Malcolm X gives his well renowned speech; The Ballot or the Bullet in Cleveland Ohio. His purpose behind the speech is to encourage African-Americans of the United States to stand up to the unfair treatment that he believes they receive. Throughout the speech, Malcolm X creates an ambition in the audience, encouraging change through the numerous uses of ethos, logos, and pathos. Malcolm X uses his personal experiences to show the audience that he has experienced the same negativity that they do everyday. X suggests everyone should be treated equally; religion, gender and race aside. His audience was made up of a majority of African-Americans, he uses the common ground of wanting to achieve equal treatment to show his audience he is on the same side as them. Through the organization of the speech, it is rhetorically effective. He practices the phrase “The Ballot or the Bullet” which uses repetition, forcing listeners to remember the phrase which later becomes more effective. X begins using ethos by introducing himself, immediately gaining the attention of the audience as well as respect of the audience. X then makes the current problem in the African-American community extremely clear to the audience, this is his use of pathos, where he engages them in his thought process and bringing them in using emotion. The speech uses rhetoric to emotionally and logically

- [ ] The focus of this speech will be to look in to the pros and cons of X and as well to have a better overview of his thought process. We will examine some of the many doctrines of Malcolm X- which where his “common enemy” theory, idea of can one go against their own race for the greater good of another race. We will as look in to the party that he played in the Black Panther Party .In the end we look at both sides of his argument in the best way possible.

Malcom X delivered his speech on April 3, 1964. By it being the year of a presidential election, X anticipated his speech would encourage politicians to support black rights. In addition to wanting to build up the Black Nationalism by encouraging blacks to exercise their Fifteenth Amendment by voting, Malcom X argued that the African American community also needed to become more politically mature and understand what the ballot is for, and what is intended to do.

Blacks at the time were being persuaded by white politicians into believing in rights they weren't going to get. Malcolm X is infuriated by the blacks lack of motivated and often critiques his fellow black for not taking advantage of an opportunity that was handed to them. Malcolm X also believes that voting rights are one of the most powerful advantages for a black nationalist. It controls what the people want, if everyone wants a certain person and they know they can rely on them then positive change starts to occur. Voting rights also helped blacks get civil rights as well which is huge help for nationalist such as

In this he reaches out to all backgrounds and religions to try and unite them in the common cause. Claiming that they have all suffered in this together. And that to be aware that it is election year and that the white man will smile at you most when he needs you and look down upon you when he doesn’t. This speech resonated because I could not help but think of this year. 2016 is an election year. Yes we have come a long way but not as far as we had hoped. We are still facing the race debate. And many of the battles and obstacles that Malcom X faced then, are still being faced

Since the creation of the United States of America there has constantly been a problem with civil rights. Even though African Americans fought for their freedom and rights, they are still facing similar obstacles that they were in the past. There are no real great leaders of the civil rights movement today but in the peak of the civil rights era there were two frontman that advocated for African American rights. One was Martin Luther King Jr., and the other was Malcolm. Martin Luther King Jr’s approach was very different from Malcolm X’s because he used peaceful uprising, while Malcolm X was examined as more assertive. In response to Martin Luther King Jr’s “ I Have A Dream” speech, Malcolm X delivered a speech called “ The Ballot or the Bullet”. In this speech Malcolm is trying to explain the reasons black people needed to stand against the American government. In “ The Ballot or the Bullet” Malcolm X uses the rhetorical terms of ethos, logos and pathos to persuade his listeners and readers.

To begin, Malcolm X’s speech detailing his his political views on black nationalism, the hypocrisy of the United States, as well as the radical steps needed to be taken by the black community to achieve equal rights, is laden with elevated language in order to create an ethical appeal to the audience. For example, Malcolm X states that “The political philosophy of black nationalism only means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community” (par 2). The use of the elevated language, such as “philosophy” and “nationalism”, sophisticates the speech altogether, which successfully reflects the professional tone used by Malcolm X, as well as the seriousness of the matter; which, in turn, strengthens the overall argument being made. Moreover, through Malcolm X’s sophistication of language, and thus the speech, it

In the beginning of his speech he states “ The question tonight ,as I understand it ,is “The Negro Revolt,and Where Do We Go From Here? or What Next?”(Paragraph 1)Here he starts off his speech “The Ballot or the bullet” by asking the audience these question of “what's Next?” The Purpose is from the start to get the audience think so that later they can no what to do and move on from there. Next he states “How can you thanks a man for giving you what's already yours?” (Paragraph 23) Here the audience are to believe that they accomplished something because they were given rights by the man , the man being the white man. By using rhetorical questions he wants the audience to know that in reality they did not accomplish anything, since those rights are something that should already be given by birth. In the the end this shows how Malcolm X use rhetorical questions in order to get the audience spread awareness in what the audience should be thinking about and also on how they in reality did not accomplish

April 3, 1964 Malcolm X gave one of the most iconic speeches of all time. Malcolm gave this speech at the “Cory Methodist Church” where he spoke out about the politics of voting for African Americans. Malcolm X advised that African Americans should vote, however if prejudice continued and the government continued to prevent blacks from being completely equal that African Americans would have to use more violent tactics. This speech is great for a number of reasons and one of these reasons is Malcolm X’s use of rhetorical devices.