e day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, and rough places will be made plains, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together (I Have A Dream). Unlike Malcolm X, King does not incite his followers to riot and hate, but encourages his followers to remember that all people are God's children and that hopefully one day all American can join together to sing "My country tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing, (Brown, 72). King's eventual discouragement came about because of the lack of success the blacks were making in America. This discomfort is reflected in his "A time to break the silence" speech. In this speech, he openly condemns American involvement in the Vietnam War. He preaches that America should solve its own racial and social problems before sending vulnerable young men, especially black men, to fight other country's battles. "So we have been respectfully forced with the cruel irony of watching Negroes and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to sit them together in the same schools," (A Time To Break The Silence). Malcolm X and Martin Luther King are both remembered as leaders who fought for a difference in black America. Both tried to bring hope to blacks in the United States. They also tried to instill within the blacks a sense of power and strength so that they could rise above all the hatred that surrounded them, but both of them had very different ways of promoting their message. Malcolm X had a much more extremist approach. This approach came from his neglected childhood and early adulthood. King had a much more calm approach. This non-violent approach came from his safe, middle-class environment. Even though they were different in addressing their messages about black respect and pride, in the end they both had the same goal in...
