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Barack Obama Breaks Twitter Record with most liked Tweet

BY Soko Directory Team · August 16, 2017 06:08 am

Former President Barack Obama has set the record for the most-liked tweet in Twitter’s history.

Obama’s Aug. 12 tweet  quoting Nelson Mandela in response to the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend  posted after a rally of white nationalists and neo-Nazis resulted in the murder of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, who was struck by a car that smashed into a crowd of anti-hate protesters.

The post set the record at about 7:07 p.m. PT Tuesday, when it topped 2.7 million likes, according to Twitter.



Obama quoted Mandela, the South African political and anti-apartheid resistance leader, in a series of three tweets: “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”


According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), preamble says “Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people.”

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