MLK vs. Malcom X

Both Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X are extremely important people in the era of the Civil Rights Movements. Civil Disobedience was MLK's choice of acting. MLK believed that violence did not get you anywhere, it just made matters worse. He believed that if someone struck you, you would win the fight by just smiling at that person and showing them love after they hit you. On the other end, Malcom X believed in "by any means necessary." I believe that MLK's methodology is more successful because you always win no matter the situation. The own downside is that you would get hurt, and not be able to fight back. However, not fighting back showed that you were the bigger man. Another point is that, if a man fought back, it could be used against their own movement, and be published in the News Papers that they are very aggressive are extremely violent, because of course News Papers always use Yellow Journalism to exaggerate all their stories.