Martin Luther King Malcolm X Rhetorical Analysis

The freedom riders proved a point to show the strength of the black race, but caused a divide as the white race became threatened and ---more

He wanted separation from the white man and he believe that the black nationalist should be the ones who take over and provide equality for themselves. X wanted equality just as King wanted equality, the difference between them was that X believe in more aggressive resistance compared to a peaceful nonviolent

and his I Have A Dream speech. They both talked about race and how we shouldn't be judged by a physical appearance and we should worry about bigger things and not so much on the little things in life. He worked hard to try and get equality for all and make America more respectful and make it a great place to live. He knew he would have problems going into this campaign because he was African American and of the racist remarks reverend wright had said and wanted to say that he wasn't agreeing with anything the rev. Had to say about race and being Anti-American he wanted to prove America wrong and that he could be this country's next president.

Therefore this makes people see racism in a whole new light; racism has not been justified because the United States have failed to uphold their promises. Kings goes on to say how racial equality can not be achieved until “...justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream” (King). He deliberately tries to make the audience feel as if racial segregation is both wrong and against basic morals. Martin Luther King’s most famous speech, “I Have a Dream” was the changing point for racism in America. It managed to inspire a generation of blacks to never give up and made thousands of white Americans feel ashamed of their actions.

Institutional discrimination is when laws favor a dominant group while minority groups are not favored, and this thought process is embedded into the norms of society. The pattern that we see in the history of Native American and African Americans is that white Americans always believed that they were the dominant race and all laws that were created, were made to favor only themselves. One idea that white Americans shared was that both ethnic groups previously mentioned were inferior and that these groups were not capable of coexisting with them. These thoughts were embedded into society early on and were the main justification for both slavery and Indian removal.

King argues that, “It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned... America has given its colored people a bad check." this instils pathos because this causes the audience to invoke pity or sadness for African Americans, thus persuading people to rethink how people are being treated by using an analogy to compare civil rights to a check that's gone bad. King uses parallel syntax in his speeches, to help the audience comprehend the point he is trying to get across.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a pivotal member in the Civil Rights movement and was an advocate for peaceful protest to gain equality. The March on Washington was held on August 28, 1963 and was a crucial event in the Civil Rights Movement in which King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. His speech displayed how one could protest peacefully, whilst, his audience, the American people, absorbed the message whole-heartedly due to his use of rhetorical devices. The purpose of King’s speech was to broadcast to the American people that they should protest peacefully instead of protesting with violence.

It just expresses how much King is against war in general, just like how “Letter from Birmingham Jail” expressed how people were discriminated because of their race. Rather than it being just about how war is bad, it was also directed for certain people, including Lyndon Johnson because of being so violent and being so commanding with his people. The speech clarifies how bad war is for the poor and how useless it is to send blacks to fight in Vietnam where back where they’re from, they don’t even have the necessities to survive. He said, “In 1957 when a group of us formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, we chose as our motto: 'To save the soul of America.’” This shows that his opposition to the war is affirmative and that his decision is not going to change any time soon.

approaches his essay as a form to persuade and blame clergymen for not changing anything that is being promised. For example, the clergymen stated “We expressed understanding that honest convictions… but urged that decisions of those courts should in the meantime be peacefully obeyed” (Carpenter, etal.). All eight Alabama clergymen give the impression that they will persuade the government to help them but, do not completely fulfil it. King’s response to the clergymen was, “We realized that we were the victims of a broken promise” (King 2). He describes it as a broken promise because the clergymen keep promising to change the unjust laws although, nothing has been changed.

Malcolm X didn’t agree with what King’s views, he believed that MLK’s dream was not a dream but a nightmare. Martin Luther King Jr’s approach to civil rights and equality was non-violent protesting, sit-ins, and getting as much people together as possible while not using violence. However, Malcolm X’s approach to this was almost the opposite. He was against the views of whites and he was willing to do whatever was needed to achieve

After the Underground Railroad, moral code came into question, and with the Constitution demanding all people be equal, the people in the North could no longer bear to uphold slavery. The Underground Railroad was risky and dangerous, but it furthered racial equality by creating a coalition against slavery and by freeing African

The following are historical events that were “unwise and untimely” and the amount of time it took for each of them to be addressed; suffrage 72 years, gay marriage 91 years, segregation 340 years. How long are we able as human beings to keep our citizens from their rights? King realized the intensity of the situation at hand so when the clergymen told King this was the wrong time for change to come about, I felt within his words the urgency that there is never going to be a correct time to bring about change. The following are two of King’s quotes and even though they are separate quotes, you can feel his train of thought flow when read together. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy…

Malcolm X once said,” Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man you take it.” This was said during the civil rights when the whites and blacks were segregated. The civil rights worked on bringing the whites and blacks together to end segregation.

The civil rights movement would not have been possible without the contributions of many ordinary people. But these ordinary people could not have been organized without the skills of the leaders of the civil rights movement. Two very famous civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Malcolm X in particular contributed to the cause of desegregation. Though both men contributed much to the act of desegregation, these men had very different ideologies about the process of desegregation. By analyzing the two pieces and comparing how and why they are different, the differing strategies of the two men can be better understood and applied to issues of today.

American counterculture was a reaction against United States government which oppressed domestic minorities and committed atrocities abroad. The emergence of a counterculture coincided with the dissatisfaction of many Americans with the actions of their government. Angry with capitalism, racism, and war, young people especially defied the American power structure, instead pushing for greater personal freedom, which included drug use, sexual freedom, freedom of speech, and peace. American counterculture was on display in Woodstock, the 1970 documentary film released a year after the festival. The film shows young adults flocking to a music concert in Bethel, New York, where they hear music performed by artists and groups including Richie Havens,