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Old 05-06-2014, 08:27 AM   #131
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Default Re: New Reality Seeds

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Originally Posted by Astromancer View Post
Doctor King and other Civil Rights workers came up with many of the non-violent resistance methods on there own. Also Gandhi's main ideas on non-violence were known in the late 1920's. Gandhi in this history would be as much a martyr as in our own.
If he is killed before he becomes an international symbol, or even before his works start giving big results in India, he is known but is more of a philosopher instead of a political figure. He'd be a martyr but with a less dedicated and more amorphous following.
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