“I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was more of a radical who was willing to confront discrimination in ways that I thought it should be confronted, including perhaps the use of violence. But I really just wanted to be left alone. I thought some laws, like minimum-wage laws, helped poor people and poor black people and protected workers from exploitation. I thought they were a good thing until I was pressed by professors to look at the evidence.”
![“[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.” quote by Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3cc/bill-ayers-1848_activist_martin-luther-king-king-was-a-socialist_2404157.jpg)
![“In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist.” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/315/nat-hentoff-1615_civil-rights_in-that-respect-martin-luther-king-whom_2781541.jpg)
