Thoughts about Color revolutions

I was thinking how the white daisy shoved down a barrel of a gun at a demonstration in the U.S. sort of became the symbol of the U.S. 1960s Color revolution even though they weren't called that then. So, peaceful demonstrations that often started with college students being beat up or sometimes even killed by police here in the U.S. was a takeoff from the Gandhi non-violent and successful revolution in India in the 1940s even though someone eventually assassinated him just like they did Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy during the 1960s.

The white daisy stem  was shoved down the barrel of a gun by a white blonde girl in the 1960s and was photographed by a reporter.The flower itself rested on top of the end of the barrel. The gun was an assault rifle carried by a national Guardsman here in the U.S.

So, this white daisy in a gun barrel became one of the symbols of the worldwide Social revolution that started here in the U.S. during the 1960s with the free Speech movement and Mario Savio at UC Berkeley in the early 1960s.

Reverberations of this have been going on ever since around the world like when the Berlin Wall fell and many Eastern Block nations became democracies like the Ukraine and Poland and East Germany which eventually became a part of Germany once again.

I suppose this also has continued into the Middle East especially in places like Egypt and other countries where the educated tried to demonstrate peacefully for rights.