martin luther king, malcom x, and ghandi
...sobedience, “Satyagraha” where you use soul force rather than physical force. Just like it is preached in the Bible, Gandhi taught people to turn the other cheek. Turning the cheek would result in turning your enemy’s hatred into love. He agrees that it would be fair to use brute force because the enemy is, but then you can only get the same thing they are getting. Martin Luther King agreed with Gandhi’s views, although not everyone did; theorists thought his views were naïve and simplistic. They thought it would help in some situations but not the more serious ones. Martin Luther King (1929-1968) was greatly inspired by Gandhi’s beliefs. King believed that we are all good people and the world is a just place. King was a Baptist Minister who saw the Bible as a written form of liberation. King fought for the equality that the United States of America promised everyone, but not everyone received. He disagreed with violence, just like Gandhi. King thought violence only let to more violence. He believed in the soul force where to change society you need to change people’s hearts and minds. He and Gandhi were both reformers. Kings preached that you need to reform the spirit and then you will reform the attitudes and laws that bar blacks from the American Dream. King believed there were two laws; just and unjust. He said that you have a moral responsibility to disobey the unjust laws. This civil disobedience could only be non-violent. Both Kind and Gandhi believed soul force was stronger than physical force. You need to love your enemy in order to change him. Malcolm X (1925-1965) taught very differently from Gandhi and King. He argued that racial integration can’t work. He believed that blacks and whites have to be separated or else they will be denying their roots. Malcolm X was a revolutionist and taught to use violence, to use any means necessary. His ideas were fundamentally different from King’s. Malcolm X got his ideas from the Nation of Islam while in prison. He changed his name from “Little” to “X” to show that as a descendant of slaves his identity had been stripped. Unlike Martin Luther King, Malcolm X rejected Christianity. To Malcol...