By Any Means Necessary?
Is a Translation of a Phrase Used by Martinican Intellectual Frantz Fanon in His 1960 Address to the Accra Positive Action Conference, "Why We Use Violence"...
By any means necessary is a translation of a phrase used by Martinican intellectual Frantz Fanon in his 1960 Address to the Accra Positive Action Conference, "Why we use violence". The phrase had also been used by French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre in his play Dirty Hands in 1948.
What does by any means necessary means?
: by doing whatever is needed He vowed that he would succeed by any means necessary.
What did Malcolm mean by any means necessary?
oppression and exploitation. The title of the painting, By Any Means Necessary, is a quote often. used by Malcolm in public speeches to challenge his listeners to organize and take action to. gain their rights, respect and freedom: “We want freedom by any means necessary.