Similarities Between King Jr And Malcolm X

During the Civil Rights Movement two arguments were led by completely different people that expressed different solutions and ideas towards the problem. These two individuals were Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King gave the speech “I Have a Dream” while Malcolm X gave the speech “The Ballot or the Bullet” that showed their opinions toward the movement. Each speech showed opposite solutions to the ever present problem that faced them. While Dr. King argued for a peaceful solution, and showed this by his syntax and rhetorical language, Malcolm X would argue that violence was necessary in order to achieve the equality that the black community required. In Dr. King’s speech, “I Have a Dream,” he shows the community how he feels about the problem and how he intends to solve it. On page 5, he says “When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every city and every state we… will be able to join hands and sing the words of the old Negro spiritual”

He enforces this idea in his speech by icing it an aggressive tone. On page 5 Malcolm X says “The Russian revolution was bloody, the Chinese revolution was bloody… and there was nothing more bloody than the American Revolution.” (Malcolm X). He shows in this quote that when people have wanted freedom throughout history the have had to fight for it and this revolution won’t be any different. He also gives his speech an aggressive tone, as shown in this quote, by calling America a hypocrite. Malcolm X also uses asyndetons to make his speech sound aggressive. On page 3 he writes “We need a self-help philosophy, a do-it-your-self philosophy…” (Malcolm X). He stacks tings on top of each other to show that this has to be done now and actions need to be taken in order to solve this problem. Here he also empathizes the need for immediate actions and that they are