One Way or Another
King and X differ in Ideas! Who's side will you choose?
Lives of the Leading Men
As he grew older his ideas changed massively. Religion became very important to him as he undertook the Baptist ideals and became a minister. He attended school and college and worked his way up to a PHD from Boston University. His view of the racial division motivated him to fight for the cause and he organized many events, through the main ideal of peace, in the name of ending segregation. King lead the SCLC.
Malcolm X, originally Malcolm Little, was born on May 19, 1925. He was born into a family of eight which included his mother, 6 siblings, and a father who was an outspoken member of the Black Nationalists. Malcolm moved many times as a child to avoid white supremacists who threatened his family due to his fathers connections. His house was burned down and his father was killed which caused his mother to go insane. He and his friend moved to Boston where he committed crimes and was arrested.
He went through school and grew on the Muslim religion, eventually adopting it. He grew connected to the NOI. Through this he changed his last name X of which grew in popularity from his ideas. However he later fell off from the religion and broke off from it entirely. After this he created his own religious organization which gained followers.
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This Land Is Your Land
Only Whites? Please
"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."
Only Done Something Right
― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail
By Our Side, Always
Together We Stand Tall
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
Not Like Them!
"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals."
X Marks the spot... or does It?
The Right Path is This
The Time is Now
Do What Must Be Done
We Are All Free If We Choose To Be
"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary." Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
The Answer Might Lie Outisde...
"America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam."
Won't Back Down and Won't Go Down
"I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence."
One and the...not the same?
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Malcolm X's method to the movement was to an extent very different than King's. X believed that the nation was not doing enough and was being cut off by King. He wanted the people to retaliate and show that they would no longer stand for the violence brought upon them. If someone attacked you, then you attack back. This was, as he believed, the only way that the issue can possibly change. "I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence."
The philosophies of both men only had minor similarities. Both men had a side for non-violence. King's idea was just larger than Malcolm who believed that it is good and useful until one is attacked. They were also very acquainted with religion and used it to motivate and communicate with people."They were fundamentally spiritual men," Pitney says. "While we remember them for their social and political activism, they were religious and spiritual at their core." "Yet near the end of his life, Malcolm X was becoming more like King -- and King was becoming more like him." "While Malcolm is moderating from his earlier position, King is becoming more militant," Pitney says.
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