Joe Biden Mentions Mahatma Gandhi In Democracy Summit Speech
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US President Joe Biden said Congressman John Lewis was a great champion of democracy and civil rights around the world and took inspiration from other great leaders - Gandhi and Mandela.
US President Joe Biden on Thursday invoked Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela while referring to the work done by Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights activist, during his opening remarks at the Summit for Democracy.
He said Congressman John Lewis was a great champion of democracy and civil rights around the world and took inspiration from other great leaders - Gandhi and Mandela.
"Democracies are not all the same. We don''t agree on everything. But the choices that we are going to make today together are going to define, in my way, the course of our shared future for generations to come," Biden said.
"Congressman John Lewis was a great champion of American democracy and civil rights around the world, learning from and taking inspiration from other great leaders like Gandhi and Mandela. In the final words, when he was dying, he reminded our country when he said ''Democracy is not a state, it is an act," he added.
