The Civil rights movement was a great time period of fighting for rights for black men and women. This movement occured between the years 1954 and 1968 and had made monumental changes to our society. This movement made segregation illegal and gave African Americans the equal right to vote. The movement had many leaders with different ideas and backgrounds.There were two main leader,Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. had different beliefs and methods but they still had many similarities like the desire of freedom.
To begin, Malcolm X and Martin L. King Jr. had very different beliefs. Malcolm X once said, “...we’ve got to unite in unity and harmony, and black nationalism is the key.” (X, Ballot or the Bullet). …show more content…
X said once, “You don’t have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don’t have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems.” (X, Ballot or the Bullet). Here X is talking about King’s peaceful approach in the Civil rights movement. X says that revolutions cannot be peaceful, and that they need to be bloody to be effective. We see this again with the title of the speech, Ballot or the Bullet, which tells us that he will use force to get the right to vote without obstacles. This shows us that X believes in a forceful manner. King, however is the complete opposite, he once said, “The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidence of their here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny.” (King, I Have a Dream”). King believed that if he was nonviolent the others will be abusive. We see in this quote that he thought that having white people with him would help the others see that they are treated so unjustly. A peaceful protest was all King ever did because it was his constitutional right to do so, making all political objections to his protests unconstitutional. X believed in violence while King used nonviolence to perform their
To begin, Malcolm X and Martin L. King Jr. had very different beliefs. Malcolm X once said, “...we’ve got to unite in unity and harmony, and black nationalism is the key.” (X, Ballot or the Bullet). …show more content…
X said once, “You don’t have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don’t have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems.” (X, Ballot or the Bullet). Here X is talking about King’s peaceful approach in the Civil rights movement. X says that revolutions cannot be peaceful, and that they need to be bloody to be effective. We see this again with the title of the speech, Ballot or the Bullet, which tells us that he will use force to get the right to vote without obstacles. This shows us that X believes in a forceful manner. King, however is the complete opposite, he once said, “The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidence of their here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny.” (King, I Have a Dream”). King believed that if he was nonviolent the others will be abusive. We see in this quote that he thought that having white people with him would help the others see that they are treated so unjustly. A peaceful protest was all King ever did because it was his constitutional right to do so, making all political objections to his protests unconstitutional. X believed in violence while King used nonviolence to perform their