Similarities Between King And Malcolm X

Acquiring civil rights is the target of King and Malcolm X. They have the different reactions to the majority. The leader for the equality, King, describes the situations why he has to be in Birmingham jail. King’s purpose is that he requires the human rights and civil rights for the minority. He creates a gentle tone in order to engage the majority that they will never agree on any violence during the consideration of the majority to eradicate discrimination. On the other hand, the anti-segregation leader, Malcolm X, demonstrates the offensive mood to tell his followers for selecting the ballot or the bullet. Malcolm X’s purpose is to energize the minority not to accept any kinds of discrimination. He creates a powerful tone in order
to motivate the people, who are mistreated, for the equality in societies. Therefore, King provides reasons to the majority how he and his followers will react if they do not acquire civil rights whereas Malcolm X motivates his followers with his strong emotions how they will react to the majority. King demonstrates that everyone living in the same state should be considered the same citizens as the majority even though they immigrate from the rest on the world: I think I should indicate why I am here In Birmingham, since you have been influenced by the view which argues against “outsiders coming in.” I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every southern state, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.
We have some eighty-five affiliated organizations across the South, and one of them is the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. Frequently we share staff, educational and financial resources with our affiliates. Several months ago the affiliate here in Birmingham asked us to be on call to engage in a nonviolent direct-action program if such were deemed necessary. We readily consented, and when the hour came we lived up to our promise. So I, along with several members of my staff, am here because I was invited here I am here because I have organizational ties here (King 464). King describes his letter by arguing that the people, who came from another country to live in the US, were also Americans. He addresses the influenced people in Birmingham that the minority can share the affiliates with the majority. He is a leader and wants to respond to the majority in Birmingham in order to require the equality to the minority. The gentle response from King persuades the
majority to spend more time to think about the equality.
Malcolm X creates a bold tone to processes many minorities to become the one group for fighting against inequality: Although I'm still a Muslim, I'm not here tonight to discuss my religion. I'm not here to try and change your religion. I'm not here to argue or discuss anything that we differ about, because it's time for us to submerge our differences and realize that it is best for us to first see that we have the same problem, a common problem, a problem that will make you catch hell whether you're a Baptist, or a Methodist, or a Muslim, or a nationalist. Whether you're educated or illiterate, whether you live on the boulevard or in the alley, you're going to catch hell just like I am. We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man. He just happens to be a white man. All of us have suffered here, in this country, political oppression at the hands of the white man, economic exploitation at the hands of the white man, and social degradation at the hands of the white man (Malcolm X par.3). Malcolm X supports his speeches by organizing many ethnicities and religions, who are mistreated, to stand up and not to accept the inequality. He indicates that the problems, which he is facing, are the same as the people who are treated terribly. He wakes the minority up in order to eradicate discrimination and be able to do the same thing as the major group does. The support from Malcolm X activates the minority not to accept discrimination and inequality. King warns the majority that he and his followers would react the discrimination by nonviolent action if there was no equality: In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action.
We have gone through all of these steps in Birmingham. There can be no gainsaying the fact that racial injustice engulfs this community. Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. [African Americans] have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings of [African Americans] homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation. These are the hard, brutal facts of the case. On the basis of these conditions, [African Americans] leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the latter consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation (King 465). King lists his nonviolent campaign by expressing the step to act from the first step to the final step. King appeals to his reasons to the majority that they will create nonviolent situations for reacting to the inequality. He offers his action plans to the majority in order to warn the majority that they would not accept any kinds of injustice. The King’s nonviolent campaign worries the majority how effective his plans would
be. Malcolm X forcefully supports his audiences that they should respond to the majority by doing the same thing as the major group does to them: If you don't take this kind of stand, your little children will grow up and look at you and think "shame." If you don't take an uncompromising stand, I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do. And that's the way every [African Americans] should get. Any time you know you're within the law, within your legal rights, within your moral rights, in accord with justice, then die for what you believe in. But don't die alone. Let your dying be reciprocal. This is what is meant by equality. What's good for the goose is good for the gander (Malcolm X par.30). Malcolm X describes his action to the majority by exacerbating the situations that his supporters should respond to the majority the same as they do with the minority. He expresses that they are not violent with nonviolent people, but they will treat the majority violently if the majority begins the violence. He creates this action in order to deal with the horrible situation and react to the majority how the minority feels when they are mistreated. The offense of emotion from Malcolm X stimulates the minority to be brave enough for defending their children’s futures. King gives the reason to the majority that they will begin the next action if the majority’s instruction has connotations: We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was “well timed” in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word “Wait!” It rings in the ear of every [African American] with piercing familiarity. This “Wait” has almost always meant “Never.” We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that “justice too long delayed is justice denied (King 467). King analyzes the majority’s responses by acknowledging that the equality will not happen, but it is the negotiation of the majority. King understands that the answers might make minority be hopeful to obtain the equality, but it expands the time because the minority is starting the action. Additionally, King knows that to wait does not mean by its definition. King describes the meaning of to wait in order to compel the majority and express the minority that there is no direct meaning. The interpretation from King promotes the majority not to accept the unequal problems. Malcolm X expounds his followers how he feels when the civil rights are misinterpretation: The black nationalists, those whose philosophy is black nationalism, in bringing about this new interpretation of the entire meaning of civil rights, look upon it as meaning, as Brother Lomax has pointed out, equality of opportunity. Well, we're justified in seeking civil rights, if it means equality of opportunity, because all we're doing there is trying to collect for our investment. Our mothers and fathers invested sweat and blood. Three hundred and ten years we worked in this country without a dime in return -- I mean without a dime in return. You let the white man walk around here talking about how rich this country is, but you never stop to think how it got rich so quick. It got rich because you made it rich (Malcolm X par.25). Malcolm X defines the new interpretation of civil rights by convincing the minority with resentful emotion that they have never obtained money from work to the majority. Malcolm X describes the meaning of a dime that it is that the money from work, but they have never received any money since more than three hundred years ago. He declares his audiences in order to energize the minority to defend themselves for the human rights and equality. The meaning of a dime from Malcolm X supports his audiences to have willpower for obtaining the equality in the societies. King and Malcolm X are the leader for defending the inequality, and they want the equality for the minority. King reasonably requires the civil rights and the human rights. When he reacts to the majority, he will indicate the majority why he has to do that. Nonetheless, Malcolm X emotionally desires the civil rights and the human rights. He will reveal his feelings when he motivates his audiences to follow him.