Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement

In Martin Luther Kings speech he speaks with such passion and determination, you can tell in his voice that he means everything he says and his hope reaches out to people and the way he emphases his words captures the audiences attention. He believed that every mortal should be equal despite their skin color. In Malcolm Xs speech he talks more about himself and he thought it would be best for everyone to support their religion to themselves. He believed that the scorch people were trapped by the white people.He thought of white people as the enemy and he broadly speaking spoke negatively about them. He made jokes throughout his speech and to me he didnt sound at serious as Martin Luther. For example Martin express Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in terminal for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding it seeks to annihil ate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. As debate to Malcolm X, who stated in his speech There is nothing in our book, the Koran, which teaches us to suffer coolly. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, see everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. Thats a good religion. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wanted a more peaceful approach. He hoped that with sit-ins and peace termination to appeal to the suppositionls of dignity and justice in the white people of the time.To show them the wrong they were doing so that they would want to correct it in themselves out of their own ain honor. Malcolm X on the other hand believed that white people would never give up their power, at least early on in his travel as a civil rights leader. He believed they would only give it up if forced to do so, and that meant through militant means. He eventually give this id ea up in favor of more peaceful means after finding white Muslims who treated him and other black men as brothers and black men who treated white people as brothers as well.And with this he began to realize that they could live in peace, and so he switched to a more peaceful style in his protests in the end. Personally, I believe that Martin Luthers approach to gaining equality among people worked best. When taking a forceful approach, such as Malcolm Xs you take a risk that your enemy will not fear you but that they could by chance fight back and over power you. This could possibly be said for a peaceful approach as well but its less likely.