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Originally Posted by Ustwo
And they both died for it by violence.
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You say that as if you're making a point. I'm not sure you read my post--the fact that they died meant NOTHING in terms of what they were out to cause. King's death didn't end the Civil Rights movement. It kept on going--in some ways it's still going to this day--without Dr. King at the helm. All without any violence on King's part. If that's not power, what do you call it?
The other thing that Gandhi and King (and others like them) have in common is that they're interested in something bigger than themselves, such that the sacrifice of their physical person is a trivial price to pay. Indeed, Gandhi was quite willing to die rather than see India tear itself in half, and the threat of his death was what ultimately unified it. It wasn't "united against a common enemy", Ustwo; your timeline is wrong. Gandhi's hunger strike was years after Indian independence.