Mlk Vs Malcolm X Essay

Martin Luther King and Malcolm X had very different ideas. Even though they were fighting for the same cause. This shows you that people can react differently to the same or almost the same type of treatment. An example that shows this is the way they wrote their speeches.MLK dreamed of no violence, freedom, and peace between the races. While Malcolm X thought of a world full of chaos and black superiority. An issue that supported both of these claims would be the way they both went about addressing violence. MLK preached about how violence was not always the answer. You can tell this by his quote in “I have a dream speech”. The quote reads “Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama,go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana,go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing somehow this

MLK believed that racism should and forever be irradiated from society. A quote that strongly supports this is as follows “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character (King Jr. 3)”. This quote sends a powerful message saying that color is not what defines a person therefore that is not what they should be judged by. Even though MLK doesn’t exhibit any form of racism in his speech Malcolm X does. An example that shows this is “Political oppression at the hands of a white man, economic exploitation at the hands of a white man, and social degradation at the hands of the white man. Now in speaking this it doesn’t mean we are anti-white (X 1)”. In this quote we see he is basically contradicting himself. He first starts off by blaming the white man for doing all these different things, but then goes on to say we are not anti-white. So not only did Malcolm X exhibit racism against white people, he also was a liar, and a very poor one at