Both “Susan B Anthony Dares To Vote” and Malcolm X show the theme of courage. Susan B Anthony in “Susan B Anthony Dares To Vote” shows the theme courage because 15 women and she wanted to be registered to vote, but they weren’t allowed because they were women. Malcolm X showed courage because he kept traveling across the world interpreting his beliefs and giving speeches. However, “Susan B Anthony Dares To Vote” and Malcolm X are very different. Their influences on the people are different.…
Since Henrys speech came 189 years before Malcom’s, many choose to believe that Henry’s “Give me Liberty or Give me Death” speech influenced Malcom’s speech, “The Ballot or The Bullet” in many ways. Malcom uses many of the same rhetorical devices as Henry did for the same goal: to persuade the audience to support a separation cause. Perhaps Patrick Henry’s success and the defeat of the Revolutionary War persuaded Malcom X to go about his segregation situation in the same fashion. Either way, both men were successful. We can all begin to understand their desperation for separatism.…
Malcolm X believes that it is time for the diversity of genders, races, and religions to rejuvenate themselves and humanity by telling them to unite and fight oppression, degradation, and exploitation, by effectively using the rhetoric of ethos and pathos with a few logical appeals. "The Ballot or the Bullet" is a famous speech that was written when the civil rights movement was enacted and black nationalist were rising. Of the black leaders, a man by the name of…
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were two of the most influential civil rights activist. Both civil rights leaders shared many similarities and differences in their philosophies, speeches and how they were received by society. Both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. philosophies differed but both impacted the public. MLK’s “I Have a Dream” and X’s “The Ballot or the Bullet” speeches gave the audience two different ways of viewing the Civil Rights Movement. Lastly, the way African Americans and Caucasians viewed the leaders were similar yet different.…
One of the most fundamental similarities between these two men, though, was their pursuit of freedom for their people. While both Dr. King and Malcolm X viewed freedom differently, they both alleged their form was the best option, and this belief was combined with their unwavering awareness of racial tension, which both men had from young ages. This search for freedom, for liberation from white supremacy, pushed them to become activists in their communities. They both knew since childhood the way blacks were treated was different and, most importantly, cruel and discriminating. Over time, this awareness led to anger and resentment, which eventually morphed into the ideology they had as adults and as Civil Rights leaders.…
Malcolm X speech The ballot or the bullet spoke out against the Race dominated agenda, That made it possible that black people had little to none say, in who should become elected in political offices. Even though both situations are on different sides of the spectrum, they both ultimately had the same goal. Patrick Henry and Malcolm X both had a strong want for freedom, even though the kind of freedom they were wanted was different. The idea of what freedom means is different to everyone, but at the end of the day, it’s just a matter of how far we are willing to go to get that freedom that we so dearly…
The black autobiography has played an integral role in documenting the realities of African-American life in American literature. Rising to literary prominence concurrently with the Civil Rights Movement and the emergence of leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, these publications illustrated an existence permeated by struggle and provided unprecedented representation of the black reality within popular literature. These autobiographies taken together depict a collective existence incongruent with preexisting notions of what it meant to be black in twentieth-century America. Specifically, there are fascinating connections between prominent publications based in black empowerment and an emerging jazz music genre. To examine the connections and their context, it is suitable to consider four renowned works: Manchild in the Promised Land, by Claude Brown; The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X and Alex Haley; Notes of a Native Son, by James Baldwin; and The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates.…
Author, Stuart Ewen, in his essay “Chosen People” talks about how the middle class has fooled America. The middle class is presented as an imaginary structure in American society. The middle class is an illusion to Americans; it has changed the meaning of the American dream. Ewen throughout his essay shows how the middle class was created in the United States. Ewen then moves the industrial revolution created, such as the perceptions.…
How do turning points impact people’s lives and countries? A turning point can be described as a significant event that changes people’s lives in positive or negative ways. In the autobiography, “I Never Had it Made” by Jackie Robinson, the memoir, “Warriors Don’t Cry” by Melba Patillo Beals, and the article, “The Father of Chinese Aviation”, by Rebecca Maksel, each of the individuals faced turning points. Jackie Robinson, Melba Patillo Beals, and Feng Ru faced life-changing experiences that changed their lives and their countries.…
To demonstrate, “Malcolm X delivered "The Ballot or the Bullet" to a predominantly African-American meeting in… the Congress of Racial Equality …which was shifting from nonviolent protest to Malcolm X-like black nationalism. Helping provoke this shift were speeches like this one, which was received enthusiastically” (Miller). Many African Americans came to Malcolm’s speech because they really wanted to know what he meant by the “ballot” and “bullet”. By the end of his speech, Malcolm wanted that many African Americans would stand up for their right to vote; indeed many of them did by giving nonviolent protests. On April 3, 1964, Malcolm X went to Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, to give his speech to a crowd of three thousand people, which many attended were white” (McNeil).…
Robert Kennedy’s speech to direct our nation toward nonviolence is strongly put across to the US Citizen’s by choosing to use specific sentence structures of persuasion,parallelism and alliterations. Kennedy begins his speech by acknowledging this assassination of Martin Luther King Junior by a white man will fill those of black color with “ bitterness, hatred and a desire for revenge”. Sad news…
Malcolm said. This sentence comes from his famous speech “The Ballot or the Bullet”. In the speech, he encouraged African American use their ballot rights and tells the government he would not give up the violent approach if African American’s equally were not received. In addition, he said, he would like to cooperate with all of the organizations which seeking the equal treatment in the…
Response to “Literacy behind Bars” by Malcolm X In “Literacy behind Bars” by Malcolm X, Malcolm tells us how he went from a prisoner that didn 't know how to read a sentence, to an advocate giving thousands of speeches to better the lives of African Americans. Malcolm, learned how to read in prison. He came to the sense that he needed to learn how to read and write after he couldn 't even read a sentence off a book after he got jealous of one of his prison mates knowledge.…
In 1964, America was struggling with one of the largest and most controversial civil rights movements in the world. Malcolm X was an advocate for this movement and although he was a Muslim, he wanted people to look past religious differences in order to end segregation and racial discrimination in America. This is when he gave one of America’s greatest speeches named, “The Ballot or the Bullet.” Through examples of logical appeals, the redirection of anger, and forms of repetition, Malcolm X effectively convinces Black America to fight for racial, social, and economic equality by supporting the idea of Black Nationalism.…
Martin Luther King Jr’s “Beyond Vietnam” and Malcolm X’s “Message to the Grassroot” are both powerful speeches to their own cause. Both similar in trying to prove America has its own agenda, but it’s not for the people’s benefit. Each speech speaks to the character of the speaker, which makes them so vastly different in perspective. Martin Luther King Jr was a renowned civil rights activist who advocated nonviolent protests to make a statement, whereas Malcolm X was an activist for black Muslim faith that challenged the civil rights movement and their nonviolent means that was lead by Martin Luther King Jr.…