Both authors made a leap by publishing works that criticized their oppressors, a leap that put them each in danger. Each poet was able to inspire and educate in his own way, using his own personal touches; Hughes, who works to inform his people and unite them against a common enemy through impassioned prose, and McKay, who works to ignite the passions of his audience to compel them to take a strong stand. The importance of both perspectives operating in unison cannot be understated. A broader set of perspectives and beliefs on the same issue is effective in inspiring a larger, broader, and more diverse group of readers. The sad image created by Hughes was most likely effective in reaching even white Americans who already enjoyed their full freedom, opening the eyes of whites and other non-oppressed races to the sufferings of early African Americans. In contrast, McKay's poetry was most likely more effective in mobilizing African Americans specifically. The benefit of these different messages (although not much) has been immense and highlights the importance of different points of view, and has also inspired different groups of people, in order to bring about faster and more universally shared change. Against a tyrannical force such as a racist majority, these two points of view