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A 9 page paper which examines strengthened King and Malcolm’s resolve to liberate themselves and their race from oppression while the character of Eliezer (Elie) remained imprisoned even after his release from a Nazi camp in Buchenwald, Germany in April of 1945. No additional sources are used.
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type of oppression - whether it is economic, moral, political, religious, or social - has been inescapable. There is an old saying, If it doesnt kill you, it makes
you stronger. But what is that elusive component that can truly oppressed person free? Is it something external and tangible that can be seen, or is it an
internal process of personal revelation? In three classic works, Martin Luther King Jr.s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and Elie Wiesels Night, young imprisoned men
are valiantly seeking to overcome their oppressive circumstances while clinging to the hope that there is truth and justice in this world. While King and Malcolms lives were cut
short in their quest to liberate themselves and their people, oppression had strengthened their spirituality, which ultimately set their souls free. However, during the arduous journey of Wiesels 16-year-old
fictional Jewish protagonist Eliezer (based on the authors real-life experiences in World War II), he lost the spiritual faith that had given him comfort and solace throughout his life.
As a result, despite the American liberators releasing he and his fellow captives at the Nazi concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany, Elie was free only in the technical sense.
Within, he remained as oppressed as he had been when the Nazis imprisoned him and his family four years earlier. Martin Luther King Jr. would have been happy simply being
a small-town Christian minister. But racial injustice against blacks that reached a violent climax during 1950s and 1960s would forever alter the course of his life. He became
an activist and eloquent spokesman against racial prejudice and incorporated Mahatma Gandhis nonviolent civil disobedience into the American civil rights movement. When King joined a march in Birmingham, Alabama
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