While King explicitly anchored his actions for civil rights in his protestant Christianity, Malcolm X's life and message informed by two Islamic contexts, the Nation of Islam and Traditional Arab Islam. ... He based most of his words on the holy bible when giving a speech. ... (pp.117, 118) MLK was at first convinced that Jesus' ethic of love was to be lived out in the context of individual relationships. ...

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Phillis Wheatley was the first African American poet published in the United States. The subject matter in the majority of her poems reflected her religious views and her new life in revolutionary New England. She believed that through finding God in one's life, salvation and mercy would follow. She...

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