David Walker believed that God caused nations that practiced slavery to rise against themselves and destroy themselves. According to Walker, Moses was an example by which all African Americans in the US should live by but fail to do because they will not separate themselves from the benefits of the white world for the sake to true freedom.

 In his Fourth of July oration, Frederick Douglass addresses the problems that the African Americans face. He pointed out that they were not free because they did not share a place of equality with Whites. Like Walker, Douglass insisted that until the African American will stand up for his freedom and fight for it, he will never get because the White man is not going to freely hand it over to him.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., encouraged the African American people to take a non violent approach whereas Malcolm X insisted that violence was needed for a "real revolution." Malcolm refuted King's claim of a Negro revolution by insisting that a revolution requires bloodshed and fight for the ownership of land. Like Walker and Douglass, and Nat Turner, Malcolm mocked the attempt of peaceful revolution and rallied blacks to use force to gain their rights. Malcolm's view was similar to Fanon's: Colonizers can't protect the economic and social rights of the colonized because it would contradict what they are doing, therefore, force is necessary in gaining independence. Both believed that the white man would never readily hand over independence to the African. Malcolm also shared the beliefs of Nuyerere, Senghor and Nkruma. Nuyerere maintained that the traditional African political system was a one party democracy that did not rely on the opposition that the West's two party democracy relied on. Nuyerere and Malcolm both called for the unity of African descendants. Senghor believed in democratic socialism in which the people own private property. In a sense Malcolm was calling for a similar thing. He wanted the African American people to gain ownership of the "state."

King encouraged African Americans to not become bitter in their struggle and not to revert to the use of violence to achieve freedom. His ideas are likened to Cabral's idea of cultural resistance in which people retaliate against an oppressor by clinging to their culture. Cabral also encouraged his people to take a nonviolent approach in the pursuit of freedom.

Asante's idea of Afrocentric inquiry called for African peoples to look at the cosmos from the perspective of the traditional African culture. Africology required Africans to view human behavior and things that happen within the cosmos from an Afrocentric point of view. This is similar to Nkruma's idea on consciencism which encourages people to incorporate the ideas of Islam, Christianity, etc. into the traditional African beliefs. Neither Asante nor Nkruma tells the African people to ignore the things they have learned, but rather to view everything in the context of their African Culture.

All of these men were working toward the same goal: freedom for African peoples all over the world. Some such as Malcolm, Nuyerere, Senghor and Nkruma. insisted that revolution and force were necessary to gaining freedom. King and Cabral both rallied for nonviolent ascertainment of freedom and equality.