Barack obama brief biography of mahatma

  • The Life of Mahatma Gandhi Physical DescriptionLeather bound hardcover book.
  • Former US President Barack Obama has said that his fascination with India largely revolved around Mahatma Gandhi.
  • Barack Obama, who scripted history by becoming the first black President of the US in 2009, has often talked about the influence Mahatma Gandhi had on his life.

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    Born: August 4, 1961, Hawaii, US
    Died: Nobel Peace Prize (2009)
    Keywords: President of US, Lawyer, Politician

    Introduction:

    Barack Hussein Obama II, the indomitably-spirited 44th President of the United States, speaks endearingly about Mahatma Gandhi as a "rare gift to mankind."

    Political significance:

    In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in December 2009, Obama ascribes his own life-story and his trajectory to the White House as being inspired by the life of Gandhi. And succinctly if gushingly, makes a tribute to India by saying:
    "I am greatly influenced by a man from your Nation whose message of love and justice shows us the way ahead."
    The fact that Obama displayed a picture of Gandhi on the walls of his Senate Office is further testimony to having been impacted by Gandhi's thoughts, especially in Gandhi's idea of forefronting through peaceful means, the principles of equality, justice, freedom, democracy.


    Obama was also deeply aware that his mentor figure

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    Barack Obama writes on Mahatma Gandhi in is memoir

    Former US President Barack Obamahas said that his fascination with India largely revolved around Mahatma Gandhi, whose “successful non-violent campaign against the British rule became a beacon for other dispossessed, marginalised groups”.
    However, the 44th US president, in his latest book, rues that the Indian icon was unable to successfully address the caste system or prevent the partition of the country based on religion.
    In his book “A Promised Land”, Obama writes on his journey from the 2008 election campaign to the end of his first term with the daring Abbottabad (Pakistan) raid that killed al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. “A Promised Land” is the first of two planned volumes. The first part hit bookstores globally on Tuesday.
    “More than anything, though, my fascination with India had to do with Mahatma Gandhi. Along with (Abraham) Lincoln, (Martin Luther) King, and (Nelson) Mandela, Gandhi had profoundly influenced my thi

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    ‘Gandhi rare gift to world’: How the Mahatma inspires former US president Barack Obama

    Invoking Gandhi, Obama said he funnen inspiration in his principle of “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” “I am greatly influenced by a man from your nation whose meddelande of love and justice shows us the way ahead. Just as he (Gandhi) summoned Indians to seek their destiny, he influenced champions of equality in my own country including Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King called Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violence and resistance as the only logisk and moral approach in the struggle for justice and progress,” he said during his address in the Indian Parliament. He also said that Gandhi’s message was instrumental in making him the president of the United States.

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    “I am filled with hope and inspiration as I have the privilege to view this testament to Gandhi’