s. He was raised in the perfect environment where dreams and love were possible. King and Malcolm X's childhoods are "a study in polarity." (Archer, 46) While Malcolm X was raised in nightmarish conditions, King's home was almost perfect. He was raised in a comfortable middle-class home where strong values nurtured his sense of self-worth. (Archer, 92) Many people have admired Malcolm X and Martin Luther King for the way that they preached. "Both King and Malcolm X promoted self-knowledge and respect for one's history and culture as the basis for unity." (Archer, 53) Other than the fact that they were similar in those ways, they also had many differences that people admired, both in belief and speech. Malcolm X was known to many as an extremist. Most of the time that he spent as an Islamic minister, he preached about separatism between blacks and whites. He also preached about Black Nationalism, and as some would call it, black supremacy.Important people had misled Malcolm X throughout his whole life. This is shown clearest at the time when he broke away from the black Muslim party, when he finally realized that they were misleading him by telling him that separatism between blacks and whites is the only way to go. They also misled him by telling him that separatism is a part of the Islamic religion. Malcolm X's life was referred to as a nightmare because he was abused and haunted by both blacks and whites. Malcolm X blamed many of the conditions that blacks in the United States lived in on the whites. He also talked about how the white man still sees the black man as a slave. Martin Luther King appeared to many as calm and idealistic. Many say his calmness came from his peaceful, middle-class life. King preached about equality for blacks and whites. He preached about getting this equality through a non-violent way. King's popularity was more than any other black leader's popularity. "King urged blacks to win their rig...
