[uncbob]

Ghandi brought the British empire to it's knees...figuratively speaking.

Gandi wasn't confronting evil in the British

[Kevin Curry]

Good point. Try using passive civil disobedience on an ogre such as Hitler, or Stalin, or Saddam Hussein, or Mao, or Castro. It'll get you dead or imprisoned--nothing more. Ghandi had success with the British, American blacks had success in the civil rights moverment, because they were not confronting to-the-core-evil authoritarian regimes. They were discoursing with democratic governments of limited and balanced powers.