Source A: An excerpt from Malcolm X's 

1963 speech "The Black Revolution."

I charge the white man with being the greatest liar on earth! I charge the white man, ladies and
gentlemen  of the jury, with being the e greatest murderer on earth.  I charge the white man with being
the greatest peace breaker on earth...I charge the white man with being the greatest robber on earth.  I
charge the white man with being the greatest deceiver on earth. I charge the white man with being the
greatest troublemaker on earth.  So therefore, ladies and gentlemen  of the jury, I ask you, bring back a
verdict of guilty as charged!

Source B: An excerpt from Martin Luther King, Jr's speech "I have a Dream."

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, 'when will you be satisfied?'  We can never
be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.  We can
never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the
motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.  We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic
mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.  We can never be satisfied as long as our children are
stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: 'for Whites Only.'  We cannot be
satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote, and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing
for which to vote.  No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until 'justice rolls down like
waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Contrast:

Malcolm X was an African American leader in the civil rights movement, he was a minister and supporter of
black nationalism, a belief that people of colour should seek to maintain a black racial and national identity.
Malcolm urges his fellow supporters to protect themselves against white aggression “by any means
necessary”. Within his 1963 speech, “The Black Revolution”, he “charge[s] the white man with being the
greatest liar on earth”. Malcolm x did not see the value nor importance of gaining acceptance of white people
by being forgiving. He believed that the “white man [is] the greatest murderer on earth”, he uses a metaphor
of one single white man, to symbolize and represent all white people, racists or not. In contrast, Martin Luther
King’s “I have a dream” speech, implies the importance of “not be[ing] satisfied until 'justice rolls down like
waters and righteousness like a mighty stream’. MLK does not imply that white people are the antagonist nor
perpetrator. He simply states that he ‘will not be satisfied’ until black people have rights, he does through the
use of personification as he gives the analogy of the intangible being, justice, rolling down the mighty stream.
It is known that MLK stood for black and white equality, he believed that the two races should live
harmoniously, and thus, the only way to do so is to protest and speak their minds, in a peaceful, resilient
manner. This is the key difference between both leaders, and therefore both sources. Malcolm x believed that
the white man is to blame, and thus he believes in black separatism, where the two races do not live
harmoniously, in contrast to MLK’s beliefs in which both races should be ‘together and equal’.

Comparison:

Within in both excerpts, it is clear to see that there is injustice, the negro man a victim of racism. Malcolm
X accuses the white man of being “the greatest peace breaker on earth”, implying that there is a
separation between the two races. Similarly, MLK’s “I have a dream” speech states that “We can never
be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs
stating: 'for Whites Only”, indicating the fact that the white man is superior and dominant in a world
filled with racism. He mentions how ‘we’ are not able to be equal until ‘our’ children don’t have to
experience racism, giving an example of the whites only sign, a metaphor for all pathways, careers and
placed a person of colour is prohibited from due to the melanin in their skin. There is a common theme
throughout both speeches, in which a passion burns, arguing that they both will not stop until justice is
served, until as Malcolm x states, “the verdict is guilty as charged”, and as MLK states, “we can never be
satisfied… [not] until justice rolls down like water”. Within both speeches it is clear that both MLK and
Malcolm x wants the same thing, that is equality.