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Embracing their missions‚ both go out to spread their faiths leading to greater evangelization and closer encounters with the God of Abraham. Despite the racial divide still in his heart‚ Malcolm X would later see in Islam what St. Paul saw in the Mystical Body of Christ: “the Oneness of Man under One God” (X‚ 207). This change would occur after his fallout with the leader of the Nation of Islam and his mentor‚ Elijah Muhammad‚ and his hajj to Mecca. Similarly‚ St. Paul‚ after his conversion and
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X‚ it is shown that all though they had some different ideas‚ they used many similar speaking techniques known as Rhetorical devices. Through the uses of Rhetorical Devices and appeals‚ Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were able to acquire a position of power. Many people believe Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. were opposites because of their tactics‚ based on the fact that Martin Luther King Jr. was kind and peaceful‚ and Malcolm was aggressive yet effective
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Homemade Education” by Malcolm X. In both essays by Maya Angelou and Malcolm X; their strong desire for educational fulfillment overrides their inconvenient circumstances and they achieve their goals by standing up for their dreams. In addition‚ Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. both
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21‚ 1965 Dear Diary‚ This afternoon I went to the Audubon Ballroom to hear the great Malcolm X speak. When I got to the ballroom things was different there was protesters or police. Any other time Malcolm X meeting in the heart of Harlem had police everywhere. As usual I was with my boyfriend who followed every step of Malcolm‚ he believed that things needed to change and Malcolm stood for that and he’s what this country needed. Hand and hand we walk into the meeting room
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In the history of the American civil rights movement‚ two seminal figures emerge: that of the peaceful and nonviolent Martin Luther King‚ Jr‚ and the revolutionary and radical Malcolm X. From these two contrasting images‚ America did not know how exactly to classify the movement. On one hand‚ Malcolm X preached independence and a "by any means necessary" approach to achieving equality in The United States and on the other‚ King preached a nonviolent‚ disobedient philosophy similar to that of Gandhi
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Martin Luther Jing Jnr is better than Malcolm X Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are very prominent African American individuals throughout history. They fought for what they stood for but in many different ways. As we all know in history there are no two great men that are alike. Their many beliefs may have blossomed from the households they came from and how they grew up. King grew up in a middle class family and was well educated. While‚ Malcolm X grew up in an underprivileged environment
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asked by her mother why she did not get the job Angelou stated that it was because she was black‚ but she did not let this stop her. With persistence‚ every day Angelou went to the department before the secretaries arrived and would sit in the office reading books. Angelou would only
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In the book “Learning to Read‚” Malcolm X describes his “homemade Education.” He started his homemade education because his ability to read and write was hampered‚ which frustrated him. He educated himself with a dictionary and began painstakingly copying every entry. He began remembering the words and what they meant. Over a period of time he finished copying out the whole dictionary. Malcolm regarded the dictionary as a miniature encyclopedia. As his word base broadened‚ he found that he could
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The speech “The Ballot or the Bullet” given by Malcolm X in April 1964 argues the importance of Black Nationalism‚ his political‚ economic‚ and social philosophy. It was given in response to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Malcolm X knew the promise of equal rights free of racial discrimination was again an empty promise‚ as the promise of abolishing slavery. Black people’s status in American was not freedom or second class citizenship but the slavery of the twentieth century. With Black Nationalism
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