Which society? The left loved both Ghandi and MLK. The right not so much. The left ended up winning and wrote the history, so now everyone views them as heroes. In Ghandhi's case at least, I think the right was right ( read http://history.eserver.org/ghandi-nobody-knows.txt or http://www.amazon.com/Thy-Hand-Great-Anarch-1921-1952/dp/020... )