Both Martin Luther King and Malcolm X are good at presenting the solutions to their audience through their rhetoric respectively. Unlike Malcolm X who is a loyal believer in violence, Martin Luther King’s tactics appealed to the public through integrating Gandhi’s nonviolent ideas in the civil rights movement. His experiences did play a crucial part on the way when he explored and delved into the true meaning of non-violence (violence). In February and March 1959, King went to India to visit Mahatma Gandhi with his wife. During this trip, Gandhi’s non-violent thoughts had inspired King and it gave him confidence that his non-violent strategy could make a huge impact to both races in this civil rights movements. Though this experience, he compared the discrimination of Indian untouchables with American race problems and he noticed that Indian leaders publicly endorsed integration laws, but in American, “every day some leader …show more content…
He stated in a radio address on his last night in India: “ since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity. In a real sense, Mahatma Gandhi embodies in his life certain universal principles that are inherent in the moral structure of the universe, and these principles are as inescapable as the law of gravitation” (King, 136). This quote reflects that King was inspired by Gandhi’s nonviolent ideology and gained deep comprehending about intrinsic meaning of non-violence. Also, it prompts a breakthrough in the later protests, which is shown in his “ A Letter from Birmingham Jail” and “ I Have a Dream” speech. His target audience not only includes African Americans, but all Americans all over the United States as