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Through human nature it seems more beneficial to be of a non-violent nature than violent. With this you will be able to seek justice in a much more applicable manner. When choosing the best approach to a problem one must understand the people they are affecting along with being. Although all Malcolm X knew his entire life was hatred and violence he had the chance, through educating himself, to grow and become a better man. He could not go down that road because of his fear of oppression, whereas Martin Luther King Jr. did. MLK, being segregated, oppressed, and feeling as many burdens on his life because the color of his skin as Malcolm X rose above that, and with the influence of Gandhi, was a major influence on the civil rights era. Malcolm X brought about reform, but only by feeding the fear of African Americans, it seems he wanted to be more than the white man would let him be but at the same time he wanted to put the white man down and oppression in any form is still oppression. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, a worldly acknowledged Indian nationalist leader, who established his country's freedom through a nonviolent revolution saw that all life as arising from a unity of being. Gandhi believed in Ahimsa, the search for nonviol