Comparing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X

Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were very significant during the Civil Rights Movement. Both were excellent speakers and shared one goal but had two different ways of resolving it. Martin Luther King Jr. chose to resolve the issues by using non-violence to create equality amongst all races to accomplish the goal. Malcolm X also wanted to decrease discrimination and get of segregation but by using another tactic to successfully accomplish the similar goal. The backgrounds of both men were one of the main driven forces behind the ways they executed their plans to rise above the various mistreatments. Martin Luther King Jr. was a more pronounced orator, a more refined leader, and overall saw the larger picture than Malcolm X.

Malcolm X used violence as a way to get more black rights and to hopefully lead up to black supremacy. Dr. Martin L King Jr used non violence protesting as a way to symbol that people standing up for their rights are not wrong or barbaric, but the people who are stopping these nonviolent protests look bad because there is no physical harm being done. Malcolm X states, “This is why I say it’s the ballot or the bullet. It’s liberty or it’s death” (The Ballot or the Bullet). This describes Malcolm X warning that if black people are not allowed suffrage and other rights, then there is going to be violence and death involved to have those rights granted. Malcolm X is showing that he is not afraid to have a violent revolution if there has to be one. Dr. King however states, “We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must ride to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force” (I Have A Dream). Martin Luther King Jr is trying to persuade others that a violent protest will only hurt, not help in getting equality and that a peaceful, powerful protest will ensure smoother integration and peace. Dr. King is promoting the opposite of Malcolm X by saying peace is power whereas Malcolm X is trying to bring forth the

Despite both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. actively fighting for freedom and equality during the Civil Rights Movement, both men are not remembered equally. Undeniably, their approaches were different and this resulted in varying outcomes regarding their successes. Indirect action seemed ineffective to Malcolm and he desired changed immediately, which may seem like the most effective route to change, yet Martin Luther King Jr. is famously known for his success achieving freedom. Malcolm X focused on direct action and standing up for the black community while Dr. King wanted to negotiate and was willing to wait for his equality which ultimately allowed him more widespread success.

     The history of the United States has in it much separation or segregation due to race. For a long time our country has seen racism as a large problem and this has caused ethnic groups to be looked down upon or forced into a lifestyle of difficulties and suppression. Due to this, races, particularly African-Americans, have been forced to deal with unequal opportunity and poverty, leading to less honorable ways of getting by and also organizations that support change. Malcolm X is one strong example of a colored man who fell into this type of hate and acted against it, uniting people to promote the advancement of colored people and change.

Malcolm X made more of an impact on the Civil Rights Movement than Martin Luther King JR. Malcolm X lived through extreme hardship and poverty leading to a life of crime; prison eventually altered his whole perspective about his role in society. Unlike MLK JR, whose purpose was predetermined in a household with strict boundaries and Christian love. Most notably, it was his excellency as a scholar that gave MLK JR his signature; being that at only 15 years of age he enrolled into Morehouse College. However, it was Malcolm X with the intelligence of peace through the Nation of Islam and spirituality of Black Nationalism, these components made him the one who is best to philosophize accurately about removing blacks from oppression in the USA.

Amid the 1960's, two of our most noticeable figures of the Civil Rights Movement were Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Both had distinctive childhoods bringing on the two to have contrasting philosophies. Their reasoning for ending the segregation was made by their history. Malcolm X carried on with an extreme life underneath poverty and lost both of his parents as a child. He got into making drug deals, driving him to prison where he found the teachings of Elijah Muhammad. MLK, then again, was luckier having carried on with a life in the middle class and being Christian, where he was introduced with Mahatma Gandhi's teachings. Obviously, both men connected their childhood in their leadership all through the Civil Rights Movement. Despite the fact that the two

Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were both prominent figures during the civil rights movement. Some similarities are they were both ministers and they both stood for what they believed in. Malcolm X took a more violent approach to his activism, he believed in fighting back physically for what he believe in. Martin Luther King Jr. took a more peaceful approach to his activism, he was always against violence. Martin Luther King Jr. believed that all races should come together as one and be equal while Martin X was suspicious of white people and felt that integration would destroy the black and white man. So while Martin Luther King Jr. was a peaceful leader, Malcolm X was a more fight for what you believe in leader.

Malcolm X born on May 19,1925 in Omaha, Nebraska and Martin Luther King born on January 15,1929 in Atlanta Georgia sooner will grow up to be the faces of the African American civil rights movement. Malcolm X was well known for using violence when their is the need to use violence since at the time whites were very aggressive towards blacks, as a result black sometimes need to use violence to defend themselves. Martin Luther king was well known for not using violence at all since he strongly believed that nonviolent protesting was the best way to fight violence. During the civil rights era Martin Luther king wrote A “Letter from a birmingham jail”and Malcolm X Gave his speech “The Ballot or Bullet. With this they spread their message using rhetorical strategy to push for equality for blacks all over the United States.

King and X had a lot of things in common, but one most essential was the goal of achieving the racial justice in the United States that exists for hundred of years. They spread their views through assertive, motivational, determined powerful speeches. As an inspirational speaker, King travelled different places mostly in the South, giving speeches that motivated both blacks and whites to follow his integrational views. Likewise, Malcolm X for much of the time that he spent as an Islamic minister, he lectured about separatism between blacks and whites in North to achieve the racial justice in the United States. Though different in their speaking styles and definition of equality, one cannot deny that both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. were two of the most influential and powerful civil rights activists of the 20th century. Both Martin Luther King Jr, and Malcolm X were remarkable leaders with two very different approaches that simultaneously fought for the common goal, which was the racial justice in the United States.

Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were both important activists in the fight for civil rights. They had the same desire for equal rights; however, they adopted very different views on how to achieve those rights. As Goldman says in Malcolm X: Witness for the Prosecution, “Malcolm and King were not so much Manichaean opposites as halves in a yin-yang duality deep in the black soul” (pg. 226). King is known as a peaceful man who used a nonviolent approach. He used what he called “weapons of love” to fight for freedom. King was fighting to show people that they could accept blacks and look at them as equals. It was vital for him to find peace among all races and overcome the hatred felt for one another. Malcolm

Malcolm X and Martin Luther King are both remembered as leaders who fought for a difference in

Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. were both known as civil right leaders in the 1960’s. Both men had a different perspective on civil rights and how civil rights should be won. Both men also had strong beliefs on religious and followed on through that path in different ways. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X had several differences and several comparisons and had a big impact for the people of The United States.

During the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1950s and 1960s, important African-American men fought for economical, political and social equality for their race. Even though they were fighting for the same thing, their ideas to attain equality were unusually different. Martin Luther King wanted to a integrate non violent society; on the other hand Malcolm X thought complete separation was the solution to inequality. Either way both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. were some of the most influencing leaders of the Civil Rights period . Both men were able to bring change in the black community; their views

Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. were men that strove for civil rights despite their different opinions. Malcolm X belonged to the Nation of Islam where whites were thought of as the devil. Martin was a Baptist Minister that worked at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Malcolm had a rough childhood with people in his family dying and going insane. Martin Luther and Malcolm were both taught the ways of Christianity, but Malcolm grew up and became a Muslim while Martin continued being a Baptist. In Malcolm’s religion they thought that to end whites’ violence people need to be violent back. Dr. King’s religion believed that to end whites’ violence people need to act in non-violent ways. Malcolm Little had the belief that blacks should be better than whites, while Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. had the beliefs that all races should be equal. Although Martin Luther King, Jr.

believed in the racial and ethnic equality of all people, he protested in a nonviolent and peaceful way and formed his protests after Mahatma Gandhi, who worked for social change without using violence. Malcolm X offered a different perspective by advocating for and encouraging a separate black community to be established. Malcolm X promoted violence rather than nonviolence as a tool for self-defense and encouraged separation rather than integration. While Martin Luther King, Jr. preached of equality and a dream that all ethnicities would live together in harmony, Malcolm X personified the philosophy of “Black Power” and black self-determination, and promoted an adamant belief in the evils of the white man and white America. Malcolm X also, advocated for black supremacy and lived by the phrase “by any means necessary.” Martin Luther King, Jr. used nonviolent tactics with the influence of Jesus Christ teachings such as “turning the other cheek” even when presented with violence and physical harm. Malcolm X spoke to reporters about the Black nationalist Movement and the need to establish Black Rifle Clubs. These are only some of their ideas on how they did not always agree on how to go about seeking out a