Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, being men of great figurative speech, had similar levels of integrity on segregation, voting ability, equal opportunity, opposition of violence, but differed in the involvement on sit-ins demonstration. They changed segregation laws, in a way that will be suitable for African Americans.In Malcolm X's "Ballot or the Bullet," he spoke about how segregation laws could be stopped and how they could help stop it. Fore instance, he said things like if the blacks go ahead and do whatever they feel is right and is equal to what the whites are doing, there would be so m ...view middle of the document...
Also if there were no sits to be no seats remaining on the bus for the white folk to seat then, the black person will have to give his or her seat, and if that black person did not give-up the seat for the white person, then there could be a fight on the bus and that black person would have to evacuate the bus. On this case Malcolm said that the blacks should keep doing it and even try sitting anywhere in the bus and would be a day that the will not be pursued from the of the bus for such an action.He also wanted the blacks to have equal voting opportunities the whites do have: and having a different age from the white man.Martin Luther King Jr. was also a man of great words to think twice about. He looked at sit-ins in a different point of view from Malcolm X. he felt that if the blacks did not give the whites the respect of sit-ins, then there would always be fights and no close form of stopping segregation, but instead it increases segregation laws.He also wanted equal voting opportunity like Malcolm. In his aspect of voting ability, he felt that the blacks should have equal voting ability like the black man had.He also wanted equal working ability like the white man has because the blacks were always found in wrong acts and having bad thoughts.Martin an Malcolm were both men of great figurative speech, they had similar ambitions about African Americans, but had different methods of treating violence and non-violence as primary causes.
