Similarities Between Martin Luther King Jr And Susan B Anthony

This investigation will answer the question “To what extent did Martin Luther King’s and Malcolm X’s ideas converge during the last period of their lives?”. This is a significant question because it deals with two iconic figures of the Civil Rights Movement who have come to represent opposite approaches to emancipation. Thus, whether they had actually come closer in terms of their ideas may throw a whole different light on the way we tend to understand them.

“I have a dream” and “The constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.” These quotes are very famous and spoken by two powerful men that has made a big impact on the world. Martin Luther King Jr. was known best for his powerful speech and also known for being a leader. “He was an influential leader of the modern American Civil Rights Movement, an advocate of nonviolence and a Nobel Peace Prize winner.” George Washington was also a great leader and started many new things in his life. “Best known as “Father of our Country” and was unanimously elected the first President of the United States.” Martin Luther King Jr. and George Washington are very well known and still leaving their impact to us.

Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail were written approximately 114 years apart. However, both publications share a common theme. Each of these authors express their opinions on government injustices. The political environments in which each author lived provided their inspiration for their writings. Although many years separate these two works, there are similarities as well as differences between Thoreau's and King's written opinions.

Martin Luther and Martin Luther King Jr. are incredible individuals in the history of the world. And both have contributed a significant amount of knowledge and influence that have changed the lives of many individuals, and even today is being studied and researched. These two great individuals have more in common than many people know, and that resides in their names respectively. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth name was Michael and not Martin. His father Martin Sr. traveled to Germany and was inspired by Martin Luther and his philosophies and teachings. He was inspired so much that he adopted his moniker of “Martin Luther”.

Upon first thought, there do not appear to be a plethora of similarities existent between Bill Gates, capitalist extraordinaire and revered technologist, and Martin Luther King Jr., who is principally acclaimed for his contribution to the Civil Rights Movement. Still, it would not be inaccurate to state that both men substantially changed the nature of the United States in their respective times. Additionally, Gates' retirement from day-to-day activities at Microsoft for a career in philanthropy are more aligned with the sort of altruism for which King Jr. is principally famous. Perhaps the chief similarity among these two men is their thought process, which is based on their external surroundings and their own internal conceptions for transforming them.

King Kamehameha and Martin Luther King Jr. [MLK] were very similar and different. King Kamehameha was the first person in Hawaiian history to conquer all the islands. He encouraged trade and also made prices higher on trade items. Kamehameha was also very respectful and prayed to the war god Kukailimoku everyday. MLK was a civil rights leader and fought for African Americans to have freedom. MLK also wanted to have fairness between every skin color. He also had a very famous “I Have A Dream” speech and inspired many people to stand up for what’s right. MLK also led a very famous protest in nineteen-sixty-three that helped stop racial discrimination [March On Washington 2]. This protest was from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial [March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom]. Kamehameha and MLK were effective leaders because they both were very powerful and they pushed the limits.

Martin Luther King Jr. and John Robert Lewis were civil right leaders/civil rights activists around the ‘80’s, which is what everyone knows them as. However, some people didn’t know they both justified breaking the law. Martin Luther King Jr. was not only a powerful preacher, but as well an exceptional reader, as is proved in his 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail. Of Dr. King’s argument, the central point in his letter states that there is a law higher than mankind’s law. It also states that any human law which is at odds with this much higher law is unjust. Every human being is bound to obey as what Dr. King describes as the “higher law”, which is why our laws must be in harmony with this “higher law”. However for some reason, we as mankind

Atticus Finch from TKAM and Martin Luther King both battle racism in their speeches. Atticus finch used the ideals of a credible speaker to try and convince maycomb county that an innocent man didn’t rape a woman in the county. He is definitely a credible speaker based on the way he tried to convince his neighbors and other people in the county. Martin Luther King also displayed all the merits of a credible speaker in the many speeches he did to promote more rights. Both speakers are very credible and regarded in a certain way. Both Atticus Finch and Martin Luther King use ethos, logos, and pathos effectively to show unfair treatment of African American men and women.

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.

People need to stand firm for what they believe in; otherwise it can affect their future decisions. In the essay, “The Step Not Taken” by Paul D’Angelo, the narrator did not help a crying man who was in need of comfort, rather he walked away because that is what society expects of him. “The few people I have told about the incident all say I did the proper thing, the best thing, by leaving the young man alone” (Angelo, 1). The few people that the narrator told, they represented the opinion of society. The representation shows that it is better to leave a crying man alone, than to assist him. Society has become unbelievably corrupted that people are afraid to help one another in the fear of being judged. Fear can be expressed in many different forms. In this case, the narrator expressed his fear in the form of being reserved and keeping to himself. The fear of being mocked or made a fool of is something everyone has dealt with at one point or another. In this situation, people have two alternatives, to turn that fear and create it into something positive or let society be their voice and have no say in their decisions, effectively becoming society's

There is something about a quote that is quite strange and perplexing. It’s immediate power to inspire, encourage, and motivate is unparalleled with anything else. The fact that a few, simple words possess so much power, and such a great influence really shows how great of an impact we have with our use of words.

Martin Luther King and Socrates were quite similar in a way. Both seemed to somehow understand the world and knew when things had to change. Both of them wrote some of the best work behind bars. Socrates was locked away in a Greek prison where he wrote the Apology, while King was imprisoned in Alabama when he wrote “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”. King would quote Socrates and give him credit for his ideas. They both stuck to their principles and payed with their lives. Both of them were concerned with having the people of their time question the accepted norm. Plato diagnosed a speech given by Socrates in “The Apology” which was both an argumentative and defensive speech about what Socrates had walked throughout his life. Martin Luther King,

Two twentieth-century leaders who have continued to influence non-violent social protest movements internationally are Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Jr, Of different races and cultures, born on opposite sides of the world in nations vastly different in wealth and technology, these two aggressive men in their later years shared the philosophy of non-violent, but direct, action and expended their lives in pursuit of peaceful solutions to social inequities. An examination of their lives, consequently, reveals both similarities and differences in their family backgrounds, ideology, and plans for social action. Gandhi's and King's family backgrounds show similarities and differences.

Barack Obama and Martin Luther King Jr. are both very influential African American leaders. Both have had an extremely positive impact on America, especially for the African American community. Obama spoke out about the past struggles, struggles of today, and what can be done to resolve these struggles for African American children in particular during his speech at the NAACP Centennial Convention in 2009. In King’s speech “I Have a Dream” given back in 1963, he spoke about the change that we need and how he believes we can get there. Obama and King’s use of repetition, analogies, and ethos determines the impact they are leaving on their audience. Although Obama gave a strong powerful speech, King used those rhetorical devices more effectively to leave an impact on his audience.

People accept the things that authority figures say and ‘teach’ the world, but nobody is brave enough to question them. Nobody will stick their neck out far enough to feel the sun and be released from the cave. We are held back by our chains because we are too afraid of the things going on around us. These authority figures have made our ignorance feel safe and we refuse to leave. We are so plain that even if we knew the truth, we’d keep it to ourselves and slowly turn it over in our minds, and tuck it away. Our society lives in the dark, and is so ignorant and stubborn that even when people escape, they refuse to try to release us from our chains because they know what they say will never work.