I guess the question I have is: why would civil disobedience look exactly the same in early 20th century India, mid-20th century segregated America, and early 21st century Hong Kong. The societies, laws, social mores, and historical realities of each instance of social disobedience campaigns are significantly different. Also, to reduce the Civil Rights campaign in the US to Martin Luther King, Jr. leading a bus boycott is ludicrous. The Civil Rights movement began in the early 20th century by the formation of the NAACP. There was a lengthy grassroots movement in place long before MLK started the protests that eventually led to the overturning of segregation laws and the passing of the Voting Rights Act. If HK journalists are going to throw around history in their articles, they had better do more research than they seem to be doing to have what they write sound even remotely credible. If I was your prof grading your article, you'd get a D and sent back to the library to do more research before I would accept your essay, Fanny Fung and Jeffie Lam.