Both seem to share the thought that the only way to gain freedom as a slave is to show that you will do anything to receive that freedom, but they also shared some different views. In “Freedom, Equality, Power” “When Dr. King rushed onto the scene, preaching a policy of nonviolence, local activists ignored or even ridiculed him” (Murrin 998) and Malcolm Dr. King's Nonviolent Movement” (Murrin 1000) was a different take on King's role in segregation. In Murrin's text he was described as weak because he believed that desegregation would occur through nonviolence. Everyone who was fighting to gain freedom seemed to think differently, that violence was actually the key. This changes the reader's view of King and how he was not really portrayed as most people know him as "a hero" to all African Americans. It seems that Murrin believes that Malcolm X brought more change to African Americans and connected more with them than with King