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"I am mindful that I might not be standing before you today, as President of the United States, had it not been for Gandhi and the message he shared with America and the world.
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Barack Obama in an address to a Joint Session of the Parliament of India

 

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma)

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