Martin Luther King and Malcolm X: Violent or Peaceful Revolu

uses. King uses this to his advantage because the clergymen cannot deny any of his arguments if he relates them properly with religion. King explains what an unjust law is by writing "A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law" (King, 222). He says that a law is unjust if a minority group is being denied the right to vote and the right to revise the law. In other words, he is fighting for the black's right to vote. When the clergymen categorized King as an extremist, he gave numerous religious metaphors in regards to the word "extremist". He says, "Was not Jesus an extremist for love" (King, 225). He compares himself with Jesus because he ranked Jesus being an extremist, and himself is also an extremist. Further evidence of this can be seen when he
             used the example of the Apostle Paul, he says "Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home to
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