SOURCE 1: We will not hate you, but we cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws. Do to us what you will and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children; send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our communities ... we will still love you.
But we will soon wear you down by our capacity to suffer. And in winning our freedom we will appeal to your heart and conscience so that we will win you in the process.
Source 1: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom, 1958.
SOURCE 2: I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good.
Everybody would like to reach his objectives peacefully. But I'm also a realist. The only people in this country who are asked to be nonviolent are black people. I've never heard anybody go to the Ku Klux Klan and teach them non-violence... I believe we should protect ourselves by any means necessary when we are attacked by racists.
Source 2: Malcolm X, interview in the Young Socialist, January 18, 1965.
Based on these documents, which statement best expresses a similarity between Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ?
• They both seek freedom, respect and recognition for African Americans.
• They both embrace racists as members of a beloved human community.
They both use religious justification for their arguments against racism.
• They both encourage hatred of the Ku Klux Klan.