Malcolm X - Ballot or Bullet
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- "The Ballot or The Bullet" was a speech by Malcolm X mostly about black nationalism delivered April 12, 1964 in Detroit, Michigan. This speech is in the public domain. Originally obtained from the Vincent Voice Library at Michigan State University.
The transcript of this speech is now built into this youtube video. However, due to the recording quality, youtube's auto-sync loses it's place throughout the video. Clicking on the transcript button under video will allow you to follow along on your own however.
If you'd like to edit the timing, feel free
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I've made the audio for this video and it's unedited transcript available here.
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Those who are in 2024 like this
Timeless this speech never gets old it's still relevant in 2024
@@HOOP21I'm Native American these white colonizers occupying so-called "America" will soon be a minority in 2052.
Super relevant
We didnt land on this video this video landed on us ... via the youtube algorithm..
“Anytime you have to rely on your enemy for a job, you’re in bad shape”
Salute Salute Salute.. I still Follow Malcolm X
... story of my Life, man.
That Ain't No Secret!
True
This is how I feel as an anti capitalist
“I’m not the kind of person who come here to say what you like, I’m gonna tell you the truth whether you like it or not.” - Malcom X
Its amazing how right now 2020 almost 2021 and this speech is more so relevant today than Ever,! Raise up Black Man.!!!!
@@bigreese9259 malcolm x said in one speech "a revolution only succeed with violence and bloodshed,but the American negroe doesn,t wanne pay the price" that was in the sixties and till this day it,s the same....and BLM?!? Demonstrating and hoping that the white man will see and get "that black lives matter" they know but don,t give a damn, they just don,t care....the only thing how to change things is a revolution ...wish you all the best and please be save
"Unapologetic unadulterated and absolutely uncompromising". B1
The man spoke truth!
That's good but only if Brother Malcolm knew that Islam is the Arab religion,not the black folks religion in America
"You and I have never seen Democracy. All we've seen is Hypocrisy." Truth💯
@Gsr Badell That's also hypocrisy.
and, ain’t no system perfect including democracy
@@gracie99999 It never has been & will never be perfect, however it should fair & impartial for All People !!!
Democracy=demoncracy
@@clarencewallace5669 real talk brother. good luck with that brother
malcolm x gave this speech 50 years ago and it is amazing how relevant it still is today
dalbalgbusc gooner 4 ever 💯
So so true
dalbalgbusc do you know I tried to share it on messenger and couldn’t.
"That Ain't no Secret !! and i'm still listing too him! 12/24/2019! this is a beautiful picture of MALCOLM X! i 💘 love him! Sister Betty there handsome grand son may they (RIP)"🌹😳" with the Ancestors!"😍😙Peace Family
"That Ain't no Secret !! Real Talk!
Malcolm was ahead of his time. All black men should study Malcolm.
Logan Dunnigan All human beings*
+Logan Dunnigan White people did study him.....FBI and CIA
Logan Dunnigan No all black men!
"Now you said a mouthful !! "That Ain't no Secret !!"😍😙
@@randyreynolds7888 "That Ain't no Secret !!"😳😯
"You Can't Sing Up Freedom
But You Can Swing Up Freedom"
True to this Day..this entire speech still applies today.
Absolutely.
Happy Malcolm X Day to all my black melanated people. 5/19/2020
Malcolm X Day 5.19.2023
Amen sista 🙏🏾 it’s almost our brotha’s day!
@@dzdhandzcan816 exactly one month!
@@TamikaX yes ma’am EXACTLY!!!!!! 🤦🏾♂️ I’m 37, I was recently lost but a older brotha 55/60 from my job took me under his wing and has woken me up speaks nothing but knowledge & wisdom on me daily! I’ve learned soooo much in the past 5 months! GOD IS GOOD 🙏🏾
This is one of brother Malcolm X's greatest speeches! Classic!
I agree! So relevant to today!
All Malcolm X Speeches were great. I learned something listening to all his speeches.
This is his top two best speeches. His number one, best speech, is when he comes home from traveling and finding Love And Peace Within All 🙏🏼✝️💟💞❤️
Indeed but Malcolm x taught many other subjects worth listening.
Exactly
It's amazing when you consider that Malcolm X had no formal higher education. His brilliance and eloquence was natural and self-taught. His IQ must have been off the charts.
Toria a. I make it a rule to not take advantage of the mentally handicapped, but in your case I'll make an exception...
Specifically, which words did I misspell and what is their correct spelling?
This man's intelligence was off the charts. He debated the best minds in academia here in the united states and in England [Oxford]. He was able to hold his own. And in most peoples minds won many of those debates. He was brilliant!
Yes, I concur, he must have had a very high IQ
After reading Alex Haley's book on Malcolm X. While Malcolm was in prison. He writes that he had read every book in the prison library. And attained so much knowledge, that he was given more books to read from outside the prison library. It became an addiction he couldn't stop.
An intelligence quotient is not a very accurate form of testing ones intelligence. It pigeon holes an individuals growth into believing they are stupid.
All because of some white elitist academics who created this means testing scam in the first place. To deliberately hold back people of color and the poor.
"We haven't benefited from America's democracy; we've only suffered from America's hypocrisy." Wow, that was deep and poetic at the same time.
In 2024 I still listen to this to keep me on point because everything he said back then is till relevant today...50 years later!!!
hope more people listen to Malcom x
I am a christian, but i find nothing more inspiring than a Malcolm X speech. Love you brother Malcolm
Well said.
In his speech he clearly said more than once to leave religion out
How do you feel about the phrase “keep your religion in the closet”
Malcolm X was way ahead of his time... Like he said in an interview, "I live like I died 20 yrs ago, I fear nothing and no one."
I can see why they kept Malcolm x out of school teaching, his words would have made the black community truly powerful.
Very Intelligent, Eloquent & Courageous Man. Speech full of truth. World need more of Malcolm X
sure you're right
Yes we do ,but we can spread his words to others.
"anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape."...yes sir!
2019 Malcolm is still undeniably correct, current & relevant..2020 is also Ballot or Bullet..Wake up ol ye sleeping giants...Arise
Leslie Rollins
You wrote the truth, Ballot or the Bullit. We need our owe Nationalism, not these chump black leader nor black speakers. Nationalism should be our conversation with each other. Our Nationalism has to become our movement not shared with other people involved in our Nationalism.
Leslie Rollins we r the Israelites
I can't believe how relevant this is today! My thinking is changed forever!
You are not Black.... So don't act like you are down for our cause!!!!
I think you're implying Trump, but I think he is better than others.
many of us say Malcolm was ahead of his time. he wasn't ahead of his time, he was right on time because shit has never changed before or after he came
‘Today is the day to stop singing and start swinging’. This man is a rhetorical genius! 😍
And it still delivers the message perfectly 👍
Sadly still relevant today.... We don't control anything in our communities.
XxSuicideXx187 Yes let's!! I try to do my part in my community
"That's a DAM SHAME! "isn't it!!"😳😗😯
Nipsey Hussle was doing it, following Malcolm's blueprint before they took him out
Blame our so called black political leaders selling out and no alerting community about the gentrification about inner cities in America.l lived in Harlem NYC since August 1996 and seen it myself
MrTee12 Malcolm also said be quiet about your plans.
“ You can’t sing up on some on some freedom , but you can swing up on some freedom “ . I love it!
This speech applies even in 2020 💯🔥🔥 Let’s Wake up People
Real brother..
Its mind blowing how everything he was saying is still here right now!!! Brother Malcolm was appalled at it in 1964!! Imagine if he was still here how outraged he would be! We have to unite black people, fix everything that's wrong among ourselves and our communities and step into the greatness that we are and our ancestors were!
🌄 THE INIVERSE IS TALKING,BABYLON IS FALLING DOWN..🐘🐘
More so
My all-time favorite of all speeches The Ballot or The Bullet
Wow everything he said literally STILL APPLIES
Malcolm X is an amazing speaker.
Well said indeed
This man Is worth listening. Very intelligent.
The brilliance and genius of Malcolm X is unmatched.
WELCOME TO 2020. Malcolm knew.
GEORGE FLOYD KILLED HIMSELF. HIS AUTOPSY SHOWED HE WAS STONED ON METH AND OPIOIDS WHEN HE STOLE CIGARETTES AND RESISTED LEGITIMATE ARREST. IF GEORGE FLOYD HAD BEEN A WHITE MAN THE STORY NEVER WOULD HAVE MADE THE NEWS. THERE WAS ZERO RACISM INVOLVED IN THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD. THE POLICE FOLLOWED PROCEDURE TO ARREST A VIOLENT FELON STONED ON DRUGS RESISTING ARREST. GEORGE FLOYD WAS SO VIOLENT AND AGGRESSIVE HE BEAT A PREGNANT WOMAN WITH HIS GUN IN HER OWN HOME BEFORE HE ROBBED HER. THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT HAS LOST ALL CREDIBILITY IN CHOOSING GEORGE FLOYD AS ITS ROLE MODEL. THE RACIST RIOTS, KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE IN THE STREETS, BURNING AND LOOTING WILL BECOME WORSE IN THE YEARS AHEAD, NO QUESTION, AND THE MILITARY WILL EVENTUALLY PUT AN END TO THEM EVERY TIME THEY HAPPEN, TRAGICALLY, BUT THAT IS THE FUTURE OF AMERICA. THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT IS DESTROYING ITS OWN CAUSE.
@@drServitis sounds like you're very familiar with meth.
@@user-ng8nw2px6q DON'T DO METH LIKE GEORGE FLOYD DID. IT WILL CAUSE YOU TO GET YOURSELF KILLED EARLY AND YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE FATHERLESS, LIKE GEORGE FLOYD'S FIVE CHILDREN ARE FATHERLESS. METH IS NO GOOD.
@@jsoke91 you are a racist why are you here?
@@loved1291 trump supporters are the stupidest creatures alive. they revel in their ignorance. proud and stupid as fuck.
This speech is relevant now as it was 60 years ago.
I don't care who you are you have to listen to this man give a speech I'm a Christian and I love hearing his speeches RIP Malcom X
Justin Wade If your still a Christian brother than you still have the slave mind. Tell me what is your Nationality m? Tell me did Jesus come only from Israel or all nations on the earth?
If it’s the latter provide scriptures that state so!
Am a Christian too and Malcolm X is my hero
@@Watch.forfear Not only Christians were enslaved and so too were Muslims and at the end of the day we are one people and one family so relax
Doesn't matter if you're Christian or not Malcom X stood for truth justice and freedom all things that the Abrahamic God is.
Nownewbehaviors keep religion in your closet like Malcom himself said
CZcams is one of the greatest inventions, too be able to listen to such powerful speeches as if it was yesterday...
"He is very dangerous. Let's nullify him by keeping him out of history books and label him as very violent!"
But truth can never be chained and shackled. It sets itself free everytime.
RIP sir, Malcom X.
❤
Well said.
The truth the goat
Political oppression,economic exploitation, and social degradation. Damn! He's right.
Absolutely.
E was and still is the most out spoken voice of his days. His messages are alive today and forever.
"You can't find them 'till election time"
I’m a christian and I believe Malcom was very knowledgeable and ahead of his time
he was right on his time it is us who were and still are behind
He was . I believe that to be truly equal you can’t rely on someone tho hasn’t lived your life to help you. You can’t expect the black race to help white people because they don’t know what they go through as well as the whites people can’t fix the black people problems for the exact reason. Until we learn to fix our own problems then we can come together and live peacefully
Absolutely, he was TAUGHT by Elijah Muhammad as he says HIMSELF.
I met Malcolm at Morgan State College, Baltimore in 1962. This kind of talk was almost foreign for that time. He was right, and well ahead of our time.
Please please please tell me every detail about you encounter with him, everything you observed and saw. Please!
One of my favorite Malcolm X speeches
The Greatest Speech of the 20th Century by the Greatest Man of the 20th Century.
1LaneOnly thank you
Arguably the greatest American speech ever in this country
You are so right
Man you really spoke on something. I think of lots of men in the 20th century to call the greatest in The USA, especially Garvey. El hajj MALIK El SHAHBAZ would undoubtedly get my vote and be at the top of the list for me, along with a few others.
True at the time, absolutely.
Wow. More truth and genius in 50 minutes then I've heard over the past 10 years. I wish he was alive to give this speech in 2020.
If I didn't know any better I would think Malcolm speech was in 2020✊🏾!
I know right
He would be against vax mandates 100%
I'm in South Africa and every thing he is saying is happening in Africa
The Greatest Man ever Born in the Land of the Noble Indians. No one else comes close
Blank Indians of course. Cause we were here first
Along wit 2pac and khalib Muhammad
@Island Roena Very little impact, Island. Don't be swayed by words.
@@yahweh_health3941 STFU, weirdo.
@@chadbrown8549 You fucking genocidal clown.
I realize that as a white man, Malcolm pre-1964 would have wanted nothing to do with me politically. Even so, I have found much inspiration from this man. His autobiography and my copy of The Malcolm X Reader, have brought me guidance through many trials and tribulations in my life. The least he's done, is taught me to be a strong upstanding man. The most he's done, is open my eyes to covert and overt forms of racism. There isn't enough room for me to truly expound on how this man has affected me.
I think Malcolm would have been more receptive to you then what you think! Thanks for sharing! #respect
Nicholas Urlacher WERE HERE WITH TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF SELF-DEFENSE MINISTER OF WAR SPIRITUAL WARRIOR 9EHTHER ANSAR
And as a black man I nor we TRUE MALCOLM FOLLOWERS DO NOT GIVE A DAMMN WHAT YOU THINK NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU WANT TO MARCH WITH MALCOLM.. WE REJECT YOU
@@achristopher3815 Don't bring "we" into this. As you can see from the comments above yours, there are people that are glad that a white man is appreciating Malcom's words. WE don't reject him. YOU do as an individual black man.
@@lumi2431 sound like you part of the problem then ...
It's the 21st century and I'm still listening to one of the greatest orators of all time. And the fact that he had no formal education shows that this gift was God Given!!
Was TAUGHT by Elijah Muhammad As he says HIMSELF.
@@petergreen5337 And?
@@petergreen5337 No, he spent years in jail and took the matter in his own hands to leave that place a different person. He read and read hours and hours and lifted himself up.
It’s crazy the things he speaks on are relevant today. This is the best speech I’ve actually ever heard in my life
His speeches are the greatest words representing freedom fighting since Jesus Christ. Definitely revolutionary.
Listening to this man for the first time right now - I've never heard a better orator. Incredible.
This video is 50 years old and this speech could be relevant today !!!!! R.I.P Malcolm X !!!!!
This is the greatest public speech in US history, delivered masterfully by one of the most brilliant leaders in US history. I would give anything to have been there to hear it in person, and I'm a white man.
thats awesome !!
May God bless you for being a critical thinker, coming from a black American
driver3596 Well, you are a Human Being and The Truth Don’t see Colour........or Creed......It never Does.......
With all due respect you're a moron. First of all I doubt you heard all speeches in US history, and second you can hear it over and over today so why tf would you give up anything to have been there lol don't worry too much about your colour man, worry about your logic.
I am an Italian American-white, but I agree with Malcolm X because he rose up at the right time. He told the truth about the Democrat Party. A vote for a Democrat is a vote for the Dixiecrats. The liberals of the Democrat Party have lied to Black people for all these years, and still they are voting for Democrats. It is changing, and that is why the Democrat Party is looking for new victims by opening the southern border, to gain more votes to stay in power. I see Black people waking up more and more. The Republicans are not all a prize either. But still they are for Freedom and Liberty and less controlling government. Look up who the Segregationist were-the Democrat Party!! The KKK was the militia of the Democrat Party. Yes, I agree with Malcolm X!!!
Im a 31 year old Hispanic man and when I was in school, I was kinda given the impression that Malcolm X was a bad guy, but with current events, and the fact I was already "taught" MLK, I wanted to learn about Malcolm X and I see why he was made out as a bad guy. He wasn't afraid to speak truth to whoever was in front him.
Of course. There is no man like Malcolm X. He was feared by this country. All facts
Joel V Well said. I think we are just sick and tired of the hypocrisy
Yeah they did that to all Martin king fuck himmmmmm malcom x all day
@@globalrei Fam you got it wrong. Listen to his Vietnam speech and his statement about leading us into a burning house. Martin became critical of the Government and that's when they decided to take him out. Both Malcolm and Martin had the same goal just a different approach.
Same, they always teach us in school that Malcolm was all about violence and a bad guy but in actuality he was a realist
The lion is and still with us in spirit.All praise's to the Most High he is waking up our people.
Ameen 🤲🏽❤️
Its 2017 and its like Malcom X is talking to me from the past
Show nuff!!!
And 2018
2018 seems like he is talking from the present.
2019!!!!!
duh of course hes talking from the past
Listen to Malcolm's last speech: February 14, 1965. We have NEVER had a leader who better understood how the media operates, how they manipulate your mind to feel however they want you to.
A FACE FOR RADIO if anyone let's the media manipulate their mind, that's their fault.
No media manipulates the American public like FoxNews.
But does this apply to now
Yet you still listen to the leftist media and fall for their lies .
@@superiordelivery4256 wrong CNN but they are all owned by democrats . Follow the money . Project veritas .
This man is the hard truth!!! I love to hear him try and educate his people.
Yes indeed
Nothing but respect for this man.
Yes indeed.
MALCOLM HOLD U DEARLY IN MY HEART 4 EVA
"YES"!!"💜💙💞💚😍😙
He is embedded in me in Africa
I'm listening now and I'm in South Africa and everything he has said applies to South Africa. He predicted George Floyds death years ago. The intelligence of this man is mind blowing. Tell me, in the US, do white people guilt the black man for standing up for himself
@@n.m6249 I am not in the USA I am from England and am just interested in my people(ALL BLACK PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE WORLD) I pay no interest in any other race in what they say or try and make me feel I need or want any validation from them
"That's part of what's wrong with you. You do too much singin'. It's time to stop singin' and start swingin' !"-El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
It's 60 years later, wild. All talk.
@@lovellsmith1487 It is 56 years later, and how can you say it is all talk when Malcolm X was murdered for what he spoke? I don't think that there is any higher calling than dying for what you believe in.
@@almostthere2884 I agree. Malcolm was killed by The NOI because he was a threat to The Nation of Islam not because of his anti-American views.
@@lovellsmith1487 Keep flapping, goof.
@Rickey Henderson That was a NOI operation. They all served time for it.
The speech is still relevant today.... Way ahead of his time
The brother was deep
the ballot or the bullet year of the ballot 2020/ and this year is the moment to elect a prety wonderfull inteligent lady 💞💌💓😉🍾🍾🍯🍦😍
Still is
When he gave himself some time to think he became educated, because the human was made to think and learn and understand. He became aware of biggest hustle in human history. His conscientiousness, encyclopaedic reading and skills as a master orator, using clear parables and electrifying rhetoric, made him the only person able to shake to consciousness the sleeping masses. Malcolm was our “manhood” in the face-off against those who subjugate, exploit and wish not to be just.
Awesome upload. Can't get enough of Malcolm. Thanks man!!
Respectful
"We must understand the politics of our community, and we must understand what politics is supposed to produce. We must know what role politics plays in our lives. And until we become politically mature, we will always be misled, led astray or deceived or manoeuvred into supporting someone politically who doesn't have the good of our community at heart." 👌🌟🔥
Robert's Rules of Order...
I wrote down that fruitfull statement as well. Malcolm was just super great
2023 Who's here with me? This speech gets listened to twice a month. He wrote the blueprint for people who classified themselves as African people. I must make change. If this was something you had to listen to in middle and high school, black would be in a different place today.
I felt as if he was speaking right now...so much said back then that relates to whats still going on now..
22 years old and this speech got me feelin lik im in the 60's
43:20
When the sun goes down and its dark, its even-steven
This wisdom of Malcolm X is so missed today.
Great, smart, wise, brilliant, intelligent...but I repeat myself. Malcolm X was just on another level.
the most amazing man in black history in America
Tom Walton facts
not just black American.
@@fahloledibakass2450 Don't forget Marcus Garvey!
@@neyitevechihobvu9039 Garvey
Tom Walton one of many
“ If your Black, your born in jail”- Malcolm X
Self-Help Steps 16:00
1️⃣ Change your philosophy
2️⃣ Change your thought pattern
3️⃣ Change your attitude
4️⃣ Change your behavior
4️⃣ Take Action
He was gifted to change lives of the people.long live his soul. They killed my hero. Humble freedom.fighter
Lindani Smanqalicious Mncwaah Mdluli they only kill the body the spirit the vision will still live on
Eish dude we need this man in South Africa, when you this intelligent you don't live long. Imagine he never reached 40 but was a warrior. I love how he puts being a black man first and religion second
Malcolm is the enemy of my enemies, thus he is my friend.
I'm from Africa and I love this man, best man ever.
The relevancy of his words is remarkable. He warned us. He was ahead of his time. Rest In Peace brother Malcom
Thats why he was silences
The part where he speaks about the American revolution is gold
I first heard this speech when I was thirteen years old (1964), and it was true then and it is true today.
"💘 love you! Old School!"😙 that's real talk!
Which should tell you something, Lorenzo...
Well said.
“Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death. The White man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. There was nothing non-violent about old Pat (Patrick Henry) or George Washington, “Liberty or Death” is what brought about freedom from the English"
I was born in 1964, Now it's 2024 almost 60years later and We're still dealing with what he spoke about in this speech.
More Spiritual Life On Your 96th Birthday Brother Malcolm
May 19,1925-February 21,1965
Wise, intelligent,self made , revolutionary, bold, real & all the good stuff man. Thank you Malcolm for giving your precious life for our freedom!
Will we ever learn
This was really a great speech of liberation and i as a black man in Africa really am delighted to know that because of men like Malcolm all blacks in the USA are liberated, and USA must be able to give credit to people like Malcolm X who stood up for what was right .
You are the man Mr Kunda. We must pull together to end racism and bigotry forever and ever.
mate... blacks in the USA are not liberated. Don't assume the issue had been 'fixed'
Together let us then emulate Mr. X and take the dream of ending racism among every race forward, as all people have the same civil, political,economical and cultural rights,that is what we should do. Thanks guys for the comments and i do believe that if the issue of racism is no fixed we along can fix it.
I agree 100percent!
Harris Howard
Epic speech. Lengendary. Still true to this day, sadly
The greatest
Totally AGREE!!! POWERFUL MALCOLM!!!He's definitely correct, to much singing ,not enough swinging!!!!!
He was willing to go to the United Nations for crimes against humanity ✊🏾
And that’s the real reason he was killed. The government put the hit out through the black Muslims. To “do something about malcolm” even Farrakhan himself acknowledges the government role in killing him
@@kennywarren8150 The UN wasn't gonna do shit for Malcolm X, even if Amerikkka killed him (they did).
Paesan Control Centre but think about it. How embarrassing would it be to the US who poses as the moral leader of the world to be taken to the UN for crimes against its own people. That’s why they killed him
@@fun_ghoul stfu
@@kennywarren8150 Amerikkka cannot be embarrassed. They killed him because he was a ferocious _organizer_ of Black people, and would invariably have come together with the Black Panther Party.
He doesn't sugarcoat the truth
He brings it bold, raw and uncut
This is amazing. He spoke these words 60 years ago and they still resonate to his day with validity. What a brilliant man.
It’s still 1964
💯💯
Thanks to DT's MAGA
People have really been brainwashed to think something changed.
@@Mathin3D No, dumfuk. Amerikkka is the same every damn year, every damn president.
@@fun_ghoul
Clearly you are as much a fucktard as DT is.
People say his speeches are still RELEVENT I callem TIMELESS
Arguably one of the greatest rhetorician America ever had. You can write a doctoral thesis on this speech alone.
now here is a true racist.
diane flock racist hypocrite.
diane flock Anytime truth is spoken to power there's an issue. Lets face the fact that Black Americans in proportionate numbers are in a state of bondage in America.
It is whatever they want it to be. The family structure has a crack in the foundation. Until they fill that crack; blacks will never rise above it.
diane flock Diane, I would never argue against what is evidently true. Yes, a disproportionate number of black people have undeniable family issues especially when it comes to black males being fathers but there's a reason for this. Now the focus shouldn't be solely on the reason but how to resolve the issue. Well, the resolution is put into speeches by contemporaries today, but the ones who are speaking it are often shunned upon, mostly silenced, and in some cases called RACISTS. Here's my challenge to you Diane, when you see any injustice, no matter what the color, stand up and say something and become an activists for change.....It bothers me when my white friends see injustice and say or do nothing, its not a black or white thing its a human thing. Black family crisis effects us all, but we don't see many whites pushing for change in the poor black community, instead many whites distance themselves and say until they change blacks will never rise above it, even when those same whites have some advantage in America called WHITE PRIVILEGE.
I love you brother Malcolm. Your beautiful life was taken in 1965. I was born in 1982...yet you are and will always be my head minister. I thank you for loving me enough to sacrifice your own life to put the truth out to those wise enough to listen. All praises due to Allah for the honorable El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X)
Great great .
I never felt another man honesty and love from other people than Malcolm X, no other can match him!
Brother Malcolm X is my inspiration. Not only he was so bold and beautiful but brilliant. Brother Malcolm inspired not just me but the rest of our young masses in all fronts.
Malcolm was too real!!
"the more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question" - sartre
His words are just Powerful today as they were then!
This speech is just as important as "I have a dream" and should be taught as such
Exactly. MLK gives us the vision w "I have a dream". Malcolm gives us the blueprint/tools to make it happen in "Ballot or the Bullet".
One of the greatest man of the 20th century !!!
If not the greatest man(political figure), of the 20th century...
I was 9years old and I wasn't even thinking about the things he's talking about right now
The man is great!!
Remember Ché. He was a force of nature, just like brother X
Yes indeed May Allah reward him ameen.May Allah forgive and accept us ameen.
Something I noticed from Malcolm's speech right from the beginning was his understanding of how humans always find something that alienates us from one another. He started to talk regarding his religion and how even though he may be a Muslim that it shouldn't be something that everyone should focus on because he is there not as a Muslim, but instead, as an activist, as he states "So today, though Islam is my religious philosophy, my political, economic, and social philosophy is Black Nationalism".
He also understands that the people have the tendency to follow someone with power without question so he urges that they will not benefit society unless the think for themselves and decide what should and shouldn’t be allowed. This is a very "Enlightened" form of thinking which leads me to believe he studied what the enlightenment did for the French and would like to apply the social change that the enlightenment period brought and apply to America in regards to racism; he states "We must understand the politics of our community and we must know what politics is supposed to produce. We must know what part politics play in our lives. And until we become politically mature we will always be misled, lead astray, or deceived or maneuvered into supporting someone politically who doesn’t have the good of our community at heart"
I loved the irony that he brought on his speech regarding how America has become a colonial power when it had to fight wars to break free from England. Now we see people keep fighting for freedom. It's almost as if we have gone full circle with America defying colonial power and then people fighting the same cause within America. He states, “America is just as much a colonial power as England ever was. America is just as much a co-lonial power as France ever was. In fact, America is more so a colonial power than they be-cause she’s a hypocritical colonial power behind it".
"the Coca-Colonization of the planet"
-Salman Rushdie
What you wrote is just as beautiful and meaningful, full of power, as what Malcolm said in this speech. Thank you.
chiapet0711 oh, you're far too kind. I was just pointing out some of the points I found interesting of his speech. Thank you regardless
U broke it down a lil more for me I preciate it
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Malcolm preached , didn't he , WOW !!! Truth to Power , my God !!!
The Greatest Speech in American History!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙌🏽🔥❤️
I got Goosebumps listening to this Flawless Speech……Malcolm was right about everything!!!
How is it that black folks STILL don't understand and practice this? Also how do we not see collectively that this conversation he's having is still valid in America? How does it not bother us to the level that it compels us to move?
malcom was fearless indeed
What was so significant about this particular speech in 1964, was the foreshadowing of the crippling "Social welfare laws" that were enacted in 1964. Although he stated he wasn't one to study politics, Malcolm most certainly understood how social policy affects/effects culture. His message delivered in this speech still hold relevance and is still in "context" 53 years later.
I love listening to these tutorials. I listen everyday while at work. Malcolm spoke and felt so deeply about What he’s experienced, what he saw, and told the future of black ppl in America. He was right to this day, some black ppl don’t know they’re free. They stuck up, kiss up. Like Malcolm said A MODERN DAY TOM.
Important lesson from brother Malcolm!