Martin Luther King would not have gotten anywhere if it weren't for people like Malcolm X (Who scared the hell out of white America.)
When you've got Black Panthers on the streets with assault weapons, negotiating with (Instead of ignoring) a pacifist Baptist minister suddenly starts to sound like a way better idea.
Ghandi won because the empire was, quite literally, too broke to hold on to its colonies. An Indian nationalist movement would not have gotten anywhere before the World Wars bankrupted England.
Mind you, today, Martin Luther King's boycotts and marches are called economic terrorism.
