Malcolm X: The Ballot or The Bullet

One of the top 100 speeches of all time, Malcolm X: “The Ballot or the Bullet”, presents examples of all four ways to persuade. In this speech, Malcolm X attempts to persuade his audience that blacks are not actually American citizens, just African’s living in America. He uses each type of persuasion in order to have the audience appeal to his point of view. First, Malcolm X uses many different ways to intensify, or make …

…and hopefully to some of the white. Finally, he bashes the government for segregating the blacks, but he only briefly mentions that the Supreme Court issued a law against segregation. In the eyes of the government they believe that they are trying to create an equal society, the passing of this law is only the first step to a united America. Malcolm X, however, purposely omits much of this information, as to better his standpoint.