A man of peace in a time of war, Dr. King worked tirelessly towards achieving human equality and human rights, both in the streets and from a church pulpit.
His spirit unbroken after his 27-year imprisonment, Mandela was the face of the anti-apartheid struggle, and was elected South Africa's first Black president in 1994.
The force of truth in his great book "The Gulag Archipelago" proved more powerful than the military might of the brutal Soviet empire he risked his freedom to expose.