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Compare And Contrast Malcolm X And Martin Luther King Jr

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Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr were undeniably large figureheads in the push for equal and better rights for African Americans in the 1960s. However they were not both civil rights leaders as Malcolm X goes to great lengths to clarify he is not advocating for civil rights but human rights. Both Martin Luther King and Malcolm X wanted freedom for themselves and other African-Americans however had different opinions on how to obtain that goal. Malcolm X followed a philosophy Karl Marx, and Martin Luther King followed a philosophy closer to John Locke. In “The Ballet or the Bullet” Malcolm X States that he is not merely fighting for civil rights for fighting for human rights “We have injected ourselves into the civil rights struggle, and
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