Jackpot, lucky seven and snake eyes, these are just a few words that fill the air in a casino. A casino is the place to gamble money in order to make quick change. Just like the 1960s, people gambled their time and lives away in order to change the world. While there are many who gambled for racial equality, two were extremely good at it. Their names were Malcom X, and Martin Luther King Jr. Though there methods were different, they both made change. Although the change made isn’t money, but a change in the people in order for them to strive for racial equality. Evidently, when Malcom begins to guide the people, he becomes a card dealer instead of the gambler, making the people gamble at his ideas. Therefore when Malcom X gives his speech, like a dealer in a casino, he…
. Martian Luther King Jr. activism would make the most sense to use in 1960s America. Both Malcolm x and Martian Luther King helped shape the black community but both took different routes. Malcolm X condoned violence as using any means necessary, and Martian Luther King he condoned nonviolence. As for Martian he believed that blacks and whites should be equal but Malcolm didn't, he believed that whites were inferior to blacks.…
Because of the life that Malcolm X and Martin Luther King lived was responsible for the distinct different responses to American racism. Both men were important to the African-American culture and had a great influence on black Americans. However, King had a more positive attitude than Malcolm X. He believed that through peaceful demonstrations and arguments blacks were able to someday achieve full equality with whites. Because Malcolm X’s life was reflected by angry and pessimistic belief he thought that equality was impossible because whites had no moral conscience. King basically adopted on an integrationalist philosophy that thought that blacks and whites should be united and live together in peace, but Malcolm X promoted nationalist and separatist doctrines. For most of his life, he believed that only through revolution and…
Walter lee was a selfish person that wanted a liquor store and wanted his dad life insurance check to invest in the store and wouldn’t care about if the store would pay off However; he cared about his family and that's why he was trying to invest in the store to get his family all the things they needed and to get them out of the house they were living in "A man needs a woman to back him up" Walter lee, he wanted all these things for his family but no one trusted him with money and no one would support him. He then accepted at the end that the money from the check was better to invest in a new house in a better neighborhood because he had a kid on the way and he had to be a responsible father. Malcolm X also changed through out his life he started as person that would have no job would have no where to sleep and would do drugs and would constantly be in trouble with the police and cheat on woman he was talking to. He changed after he was caught and was put in jail for about 10 years. When he got out Malcolm was a changed man. He started to go to church, he quit doing drugs, while he was in jail he stayed clean for 8 years he also pushed the people that landed him in trouble away because he wanted people that wanted good for him and encouraged him to succeed. He started to preach and soon enough he was the voice of the Islamic and afro American people. Both Walter lee and Malcolm x both didn’t like what the people wanted for them because they both have a lot of pride and ended up being the bigger person and doing the right…
The vastly different early backgrounds of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. had major impacts on their goal to achieve equality between all races. Martin was born and raised in a middle-class, well-educated family, in which his family provided their children with “the basic necessities of life,” and important role-models of the race for them to follow. Religion was the center of his life growing up and his parents raised him with strong values of self-worth. Throughout King’s life, he always stood his ground, encouraged nonviolence and supported passive resistance. Martin always stood out because despite having been physically attacked, he never reacted with violence.…
Malcolm x and Martin Luther King Jr. are both powerful leaders. Malcolm X believed in violence and Martin Luther King believed in nonviolence. These two leader shared belief and hopes but they also had their differences. Malcolm X was born in Omaha, Nebraska on May 19, 1925. Malcolm did not believe in nonviolence or advocate integration. (Harold 610) He attracted black people’s attention and was eloquent, passionate, and a courageously out spoken champion of black people and a critic of American racism.…
Dr. King and Malcolm X each suggest radically different approaches to attaining freedom and equality for African-Americans in American society. Dr. King's approach was against violence by all means. He stated that “Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.” Dr. King was a firm believer in the power of unconditional love. He did not want to stoop to the level of the racists to attain equality. Malcolm X, on the other hand, believed that it was every…
Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. are two very widely known African Americans who made historic impacts while standing for what they believed in and holding prominent events. The most common known difference between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. is that one used violence when “making his voice heard” and the other didn’t, but both protested for the same purpose and with the same intentions. What some may not know, is why both acted in such opposing ways. Though both leaders suffered and experienced harsh treatments throughout their lives, they both had very different childhoods. Malcolm X grew up in an underprivileged environment in which he got little schooling.…
Even though some people thought that Malcolm X was an “uncompromising” leader, he was a very vital participant in the civil rights movement. He didn’t follow the nonviolent movement. “Instead of nonviolence in the face of anti-black attacks, he called for self-defense” (Ali, para.3). This supports his famous quote “by any means necessary”. According to Zaheer Ali, X wanted to bring all African-American people together and create a…
Were Martin Luther King Junior’s experiences of, actions against and beliefs about segregation different to those of Malcolm X?…
who was well-known in their area of Atlanta, while Malcolm X was a virtual nobody. One could probably say that Martin Luther King enjoyed the best that…
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were two very influential men during the Civil Rights Movement. While they both were fighting for the same things, they had quite different ways of acting upon solving these problems. A lot of people see them as complete opposites, seeing as they had contrasting views on violence versus peace. Most are very familiar with King, seeing as he has his own holiday, but not many people may know what he did or was involved with other than civil rights. Both men were adamant in putting an end to segregation, but Malcolm X is known to have relied on violence to get his point across, instead of peaceful protesting. King and Malcolm X were seen as ideological opposites, and many people describe their characters based on preconceived notions, when in reality, their ideas and views converged in some areas.…
Malcolm was a man who wanted change for not only his community but in the world. I believe that he had done everything that he could possibly do to make a change and if he would have lived a little longer he would have kept fighting for our equal rights. In my opinion Malcom X was a good person and I’m probably not he only person who thinks so. All of this lead up to Malcolm and other Civil Rights Activist ending segregation.…
Malcom X a leader notable for his work through the Nation of Islam during the Civil Rights Movement was a firm Believer in self-defense or defense which is defined by Webster’s dictionary as “the act of defending someone or something from attack” and this way of thinking, which is only human nature has labeled him with the stereotype of being violent and menacing. Malcom X not only stood for the rights of blacks but the rights of all during a speech he gave in New York he was quoted as saying “We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for . . . human rights." (Speech in New York, 1964) And this part of his philosophy and him are not talked about, what is widely discussed and debated is his moto “by any means necessary” meaning that he was will do what it takes to get where he wanted African Americans to be to be in society, he also spoke on revolution principles saying "Revolution is bloody, revolution is hostile, revolution knows no compromise, revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way." (Malcolm X: quote on revolution) this statement has been true throughout history, for there to be a revolution there must be sacrifice and the ones that sacrificed themselves where Blacks standing up for their rights and trying to prove that they’re not what society pictures them to be “As Malcolm X toured the nation in the early 1960s promoting the Nation of Islam, the civil rights movement, one of his favorite topics, reached full force. Malcolm X regularly attacked one of the fundamental goals of the civil rights struggle: integration. Instead he endorsed separatism, advocating that each African American "should be focusing his every effort toward building his own businesses, and decent homes for himself . . . patronize their own kind, hire their own kind,…
America’s most well-known Civil Rights’ activist, Martin Luther King, believed it was never right to use violence. His nonviolent activism achieved more genuine progress towards racial equality in American history. In his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, King declared that America would be a land of freedom where all men are created equal. Malcolm X, who was also one of the most historically known Human Rights’ activist and advocate for the rights of African-American, had a different approach and perspective. Malcolm X was willing to use “by any means necessary”, violent or nonviolent, to achieve civil right and equality. They both share the same goal but using violence to bring social change will only make the tension between the two parties…