Duane Allman Quotes
There ain't no revolution, only evolution, but every time I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace.
Freeman, Scott. Midnight Riders: The Story of the Allman Brothers Band. Little, Brown and Company, 1995, p. 109.
His strategy was to fill the jails of Birmingham, and asked the young people to help. The next days saw virtually all the Birmingham high school students our of school and in the streets protesting which was then against the un-Constitutional laws of Birmingham and Alabama. The students were arrested by the droves and the white authorities, believing that they were being firm against “radical lawbreakers”, fell into the trap, and became a travesty to most of the country and the rest of the world and the hundreds of jailed students beaten and assaulted raised the consciousness of whites as well as Blacks.
This speech is often referred to as the “Ballot or the Bullet” speech. It was the first time that Malcolm X used the “Ballot or the Bullet”. He was not the first African American to use the “Ballot or the Bullet” phrase. See {624102} for a use over 100 years ago. However, he was really arguing to allow Blacks to vote in the South where it was almost impossible at the time. There was no Voting Rights Act at that time and it was his actions that helped pass one shortly thereafter.
“Ancien regime” is a French political term for the regime that was in power before the revolution.
Howard Duane Allman was an American rock guitarist, session musician, and the founder and original leader of the Allman Brothers Band.
