Miley Brown
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To what is Malcolm X referring when he speaks of “ballots” or “bullets”?
“[N]ow you’re facing a situation where the young Negro’s coming up. They don’t want to hear that ‘turn-the-other-cheek’ stuff, no… . There’s new thinking coming in. There’s new strategy coming in … It’ll be ballots, or it’ll be bullets. It’ll be liberty, or it will be death.”
Malcolm X, 1964
“[N]ow you’re facing a situation where the young Negro’s coming up. They don’t want to hear that ‘turn-the-other-cheek’ stuff, no… . There’s new thinking coming in. There’s new strategy coming in … It’ll be ballots, or it’ll be bullets. It’ll be liberty, or it will be death.”
Malcolm X, 1964