Don't forget MLK. What he did could not have been done without passive resistance.

In the the 60's nearly every white person in this country was a racist or didn't give a damn. National sentiment could have swung either way. Bull Conner might have been a hero instead of a buffoon if he had used his water cannon and cattle prods on rioters instead of peaceful demonstrators. Imagine the cause of civil rights today if the blacks had been the people bombing churches and public buildings.

Unlike some of the petty causes that are a pain in the butt employing those methods, Civil rights was a movement whose time had come. We might be looking at a situation not unlike Northern Ireland in the South today if MLK had not been there at the right time.

As a minority the black leaders of that time were smart enough to do the math. The Muslims could learn a thing or two from them.