Betsy brown braun biography of mahatma

To the people of India, and Indian Americans all across the United States, I want to wish you a happy Indian Independence Day. On August 15, , dock and women all over India, rejoiced in the declaration of the independence of the country of India. Today, on August 15, , I stand before you, as the first candidate for vice president of the United States, o f South Asian descent. When my mother, Shyamala, stepped off the plane in California at 19 years old, she did not have much in the way of belongings – but she carried with her lessons from back home. Including ones she learned from her parents, my grandmother, Rajam, and her father and my grandfather, P.V. Gopalan. They taught her that, when you see injustice in the world, you have an obligation to do something about it. Which is what inspired my mother, to march and shout on the streets of Oakland, at the height of the civil rights movement. A movement whose leaders, including Dr Martin

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