MLK vs. Malcolm X

“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”

• Malcolm X

• MLK

“I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.”

• Malcolm X

• MLK

“I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of value.”

• Malcolm X

• MLK

“Black men have slammed the door shut on a past of deadening passivity”

• Malcolm X

• MLK

“It is a disgrace for Negro leaders not to be able to submerge our “minor” differences in order to seek a common solution to a common problem posed by a common enemy.”

• Malcolm X

• MLK