Question

What is the basic difference between the attitudes of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Stokely Carmichael as expressed above? On what point do they agree?

Answer 1

“The only time I hear people talk about nonviolence is when black people move to defend themselves against white peo- ple. Black people cut themselves every night in the ghetto. Don’t anybody talk about nonviolence. Lyndon Baines Johnson is busy bombing . . . Vietnam. Don’t nobody talk about nonviolence. White people beat up black people
every day. Don’t nobody talk about nonviolence. But as soon as black people start to move, the double standard comes into being. You can’t defend yourself. That’s what you’re saying. . . .”
—Stokely Carmichael Speech, October 1966, Berkeley, California

Answer 2

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Answer 3

“This afternoon, following a series
of threats and defiant statements, the presence of Alabama National Guards- men was required on the University
of Alabama to carry out the final and unequivocal order of the United States District Court . . . That order called
for the admission of two clearly quali- fied young Alabama residents who happened to have been born Negro. . . . This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was found on the principle that that all men are created equal, and that the rights
of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. . . . One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.”
—Martin Luther King, Jr. Speech, March 1956, Louisville, Kentucky

Answer 4

Well there were basically two ideologies that civil rights leaders fell into. the not violent ones and the use of violence.

Answer 5

@okdutchman7 what is the main idea behind the statements?