King moved, as father was, on trip to Gandhi's memorial - CNN.com
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In 1959, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. came to India to further understand Mahatma Gandhi's tactics of passive resistance.
Gandhi's methods of nonviolent protests had worked a decade earlier to bring independence to a nation. In '59, King was in the midst of formulating and carrying out his own plan to help bring freedom and equality to the oppressed in the United States.
Both leaders paid a heavy price. Although their methods were ones of nonviolence, they both died violent deaths, assassinated by gunmen.
Their legacies were forever linked by the lessons King applied when he returned to America after his monthlong trip to India with his wife, Coretta.
Andrew Young, a top aide to King, says the civil rights leader "found great strength in Gandhi and in Gandhi's writings, his life, his tactics."
On the 50th anniversary of King's visit to India, his oldest son, Martin Luther King III, and a delegation of congressmen and leaders like Young went to India to commemorate the historical trip.
At a time when war and terrorism are raging in many nations, the younger King said, the notion of a nonviolent means to an end is needed as much now as it ever was.
"My dad used to say that violence is the language of the unheard," King said as he stood in New Delhi looking at pictures of his father in India. "For so long, we in the world community disallowed people to express the other points of view. I think we have to learn how to disagree without being disagreeable."
Gandhi's methods of nonviolent protests had worked a decade earlier to bring independence to a nation. In '59, King was in the midst of formulating and carrying out his own plan to help bring freedom and equality to the oppressed in the United States.
Both leaders paid a heavy price. Although their methods were ones of nonviolence, they both died violent deaths, assassinated by gunmen.
Their legacies were forever linked by the lessons King applied when he returned to America after his monthlong trip to India with his wife, Coretta.
Andrew Young, a top aide to King, says the civil rights leader "found great strength in Gandhi and in Gandhi's writings, his life, his tactics."
On the 50th anniversary of King's visit to India, his oldest son, Martin Luther King III, and a delegation of congressmen and leaders like Young went to India to commemorate the historical trip.
At a time when war and terrorism are raging in many nations, the younger King said, the notion of a nonviolent means to an end is needed as much now as it ever was.
"My dad used to say that violence is the language of the unheard," King said as he stood in New Delhi looking at pictures of his father in India. "For so long, we in the world community disallowed people to express the other points of view. I think we have to learn how to disagree without being disagreeable."
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