One of Malcolm X’s famous speeches includes “The Ballot or the Bullet.” When he gave this speech in 1964, he was a leader fighting against the white people and supporting the black Muslims. Through this speech he tries to persuade the black community to defend themselves against the white government. Malcolm X uses strong diction along with parallelism in this speech to emphasize the problem of racial inequality in America. For instance he describes the African population in America as “Africans who are in America.” He repeats the phrase, “We are Africans,” three times to emphasize his point that the Africans living in America are not free, “although America is the land of the free.” The repetition of this short, but powerful phrase helps his
