Rich tributes were paid to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr across the United States on Monday even as there were protests over the deaths of unarmed black men and boys at the hands of police around the country.
"This experience we shall remember all of our lives. May God always bless the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi," wrote Martin Luther King III in the visitors' book after visiting Rajghat to trace his father's 'pilgrimage' to India 50 years ago. Asking everyone to follow non-violence and the other teachings of Gandhi, whom he described as 'one of the greatest human beings', Martin Luther King III, said, "The world needs the message of non-violence more than ever before."
In a rare gesture, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and United States President Barack Obama visited the Martin Luther King Junior Memorial and paid homage to the leader of the African-American civil rights movement.
Though Barack Obama's election as the first black US president partly fulfilled the dream of legendary civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King Jr, the ideal world, envisaged by him and Mahatma Gandhi, was yet to be realised, his son Martin Luther King III said today.
The resolution urges Americans to commemorate the impact that King's trip to India in 1959 and his study of Gandhian philosophy had in shaping the Civil Rights Movement and creating political climate necessary to pass legislation to expand civil rights and voting rights for all Americans.
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Former United States First Lady Jackie Kennedy described the late Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi as a "prune - bitter, kind of pushy, horrible woman," according to previously unreleased interviews.
America would be a very different country had Dr King not been murdered that April day 50 years ago.
Instead of a tit-for-tat with terrorists, there was need to communicate with them in making them shun violence, Martin Luther King III, son of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, said in Kolkata on Sunday.
Dr Martin Luther King Jr's 'I have a Dream' speech is one of the greatest speeches of the 20th Century. August 28 marks the 50th anniversary of that brilliant piece of oratory which paved the way for equal rights for African Americans in the United States -- and continues to remain relevant in a world woefully short of giving equality to all.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay floral tributes to the Gandhi statue and visit the historic Lincoln Memorial and the recently established memorial for Martin Luther King Jr in the American capital.
The civil rights movement in the United States was effective in changing the nation and its citizens' lives since it was based on the philosophy of love and non-violence taught by Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King III said on Wednesday. "We are thankful to Gandhi for what he inspires in us and our world," King, the son of renowned civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr, said in Mumbai.
Pelosi also praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's communication skills at the event.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday hosted a delegation of lawmakers, civil rights activists and some of this country's leading musicians, including jazz great Herbie Hancock, on the eve of their setting off on a trip to India to retrace the late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr's visit 50 years ago, and to commemorate the influence Mahatma Gandhi had on this civil rights icon and the passive resistance movement he founded.
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Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr are among the heroes of United States President Barack Obama, a senior Obama administration official has said. "Barack Obama, first African-American president and a student of those principles, identifies Gandhi's autobiography and Taylor Branch's terrific three-part biography of King, as works that helped shape him," Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Robert Blake said.
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US President Obama in his address to thousands who gathered on the Washington Mall paid tribute to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and to the millions who stood by his side during the civil rights fight of the 1960s.
The United States House of Representative on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution recognising the influence Mahatma Gandhi had on Martin Luther King Jr, the great civil rights leader of America, who has been a source of inspiration to President Barack Obama. Passed by a roll call vote of 406 to 0, with 26 abstaining, the resolution commemorates the 50th anniversary of King's visit to India in 1959. It was introduced by Congressman John Lewis.
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'The teachings of Gandhi, the philosophy of passive resistance and nonviolence, and also taught by Martin Luther King Jr, inspired hundreds and thousands and millions of citizens in America, and helped to free and liberate not just a people, but a nation,' says US Congressman John Lewis, a close friend of Dr King.
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In an interaction with journalists at the Foreign Press Center inWashington, Lewis, who marched with King in Selma, Alabama in the '60s said, "As I said there in India as we traveled, if it hadn't been for Gandhi, hadn't been for Martin Luther King Jr, there would be no Barack Obama."
Ahead of India's Independence Day on August 15, US Secretary of State Hillar Clinton greeted Indians on Thursday. Below is the text of her speech.
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As the world celebrates the International Day of non-violence, United States President Barack Obama on Friday said America has its 'roots in the India of Mahatma Gandhi'. "His teachings and ideals, shared with Martin Luther King Jr on his 1959 pilgrimage to India, transformed American society through our civil rights movement," Obama said on the occasion of Gandhi's birth anniversary. Americans owe enormous gratitude to Gandhi, he added.
United States President Barack Obama recalled the non-violent methods of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr as he praised the people of Egypt for their peaceful protests and welcomed the end of Hosni Mubarak's 30-year-rule.
One of the most prominent of Indian immigrants in America, Subash Razdan has, along with his wife Raj, made America his home for more than 34 years. Among his many achievements are leading the effort to have a Mahatma Gandhi statute in Atlanta at the museum that honors Martin Luther King Jr., the highly influential activist who was inspired by the Mahatma.
The Georgia-based Gandhi Foundation of USA proposes to establish a Gandhi Center in Atlanta.
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The Eternal Gandhi Museum is the only Gandhi-related museum in the United States, dedicated to Gandhi, to preserve and promote his ever-lasting legacy of nonviolent conflict resolution.
The US president has often talked about the influence of Mahatma Gandhi on his life.
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