Martin Luther King vs. Adolf Hitler
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Martin Luther King
1929 – 1968
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.
"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
Adolf Hitler
1889 – 1945
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era, which lasted from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 under his leadership marked the outbreak of the Second World War.
"And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know."
Connections
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