Monday, January 16, 2017

The Embodiment Of “The Audacity Of Hope”

The Embodiment Of “The Audacity Of Hope”

The Teachers of the thought process create interminable learning experiences for ordinary people in the audacity of hope.
My heroes:
Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, President Barack Obama.
The Spirit lives on!

Mahatma Gandhi


Through the 1930s and the 1940s Mahatma Gandhi born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, India, headed India’s movement for independence by challenging the civil rights of Indians under the British, not with violence rule and weapons, but with organized boycotts against British institutions in peaceful protest forms of civil disobedience that would influence the world.


Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

Born: July 18, 1918, Mvezo, South Africa.
He was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999. He was a symbol of global peacemaking. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 "for his work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a democratic South Africa."

Martin Luther King Jr.


Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929. He was an American Baptist minister and activist who lead in the Civil Rights Movement, using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.
He was awarded the Nobel peace prize "for his nonviolent resistance to racial predjudice in America."

Barack Obama
Obama posing in the Green Room of the White House with wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia in 2009
Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States. He is the first African American to serve as U.S. President.
He was awarded the Nobel peace prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."

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“One thing will emerge from these reflections: there is no one tool for thinking. Experience by itself begets chaos in the absence of pattern recognition, memory, association, and some form of reasoning. Reason by itself is sterile, absent some practically reliable bases from which to draw our inferences, explanations, and generalizations. Intuition by itself offers no decision procedure, invention by itself is dangerously speculative. The magic is in the mix.” - James Hall.
This group is the perfect fit.

They exemplifies the embodiment of “The Audacity Of Hope”. I am fortunate to have seen these men in action! Lucidity would decree that another leader would surface. The question is that our hope is inquisitive as to whether he/she is already born?


Dr. Cliff  Bertrand
Olympian