Malcom's Ethos Pathos Logos

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Riots, lynching, church burnings, these were just some of the events of the 1960’s. The 1960’s had a few names, such as the women’s rights movement, and the civil rights movement. However the civil rights movement was a revolutionary fight for racial equality mostly among those who were black and white. While blood was being shed, people fought for and against the idea of integration of races. Leading both sides were to important people. The first was Martin Luther King Jr. who preached loved and that violence must be met with peace; the other was Malcom X who thought along with taught that violence can only be met with violence. The two were natural born enemies that had different ways of solving the same problem. One can see the difference …show more content…
“Believing in one God…creates unity.” This is one of the first things Malcom says that relates to ethos. By saying the quote he means to connect his religion, Islam, to his audience’s beliefs. Through the quote, Malcom is not only showing he believes in God, but in addition to this, he informs the people that he wants unity. Considering the words spoken, a person listening to the speech could correlate it to reading a book. When a student reads book and is on a different page then his scholar, they’re not in sync, they’re not unified. Thus until they both get on the same page, of the same book, rather Qur’an, the Bible, or the Torah. Even though Malcom is Muslim, he uses the Christian religion to also connect him with his audience. This is seen when Malcom says “If you judged him just because he was a Jew, that’s not as bad as judging him because he’s black.” By using the phrase judged as because he is a Jew. He indirectly mentions Jesus. Not only that but he says by judging someone because of skin color makes you worse than the people who judged Jesus. Without a doubt, Malcom once again indirectly makes a person think about what they are doing. With Pathos, Malcom uses religious references to help connect him with his followers, and