Martin Luther King and Malcolm X (Got it from here-combined)
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Martin Luther King & Malcolm X Comparison Essay
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Back in the 1960’s African-Americans were inferior to the white people. White people had the control over black people. People started taking actions against it. The black people now wanted equal rights since they were born here and had the citizenship, and all rights to stay in United States. People were very racist and didn’t considered black people as normal human beings. For every attempt of expressing their desire and need for equality, all efforts were shot down. There was no unity, no one to rally the hearts and minds of blacks and whites alike. But then a preacher from Montgomery Alabama leaded the largest civil rights movement. Through the gentle voice and outstanding personality, Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the strongest and most influential civil rights activists. But he was not the only one to work in equality for African-Americans, there were others fighting for the same cause. One of the other most famous activists was Malcolm X; a converted Muslim from Harlem, New York.
Both were similar to each other, but at the same time different in many ways. Malcolm was a man who spoke of a violent revolution because he thought it would bring racial change for the black race. He was a dark charisma, an angry, implacable man whose good will or forgiveness or even pity the white race could neither earn nor buy. He viewed white supremacists as enemies. He says that whites were inherently enemies of the Negroes. In his speeches he is talking about them, and how they hired people to break into black people’s house and kill them. Malcolm X is not asking blacks to beg for equality and ask to end segregation, he’s saying that they should unite together and fight against their enemies. He also makes a point that they don’t hang you because of you are Christian, Jew, Muslim. They hang you because you are black. Considering that, he wants the blacks to take action against it, and overcome this problem. "Anything you can think of that you want to change right now, the only way you can do it is with a ballot or a bullet. And if you're not ready to...