We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.
INDIRA GANDHITo be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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You soon realize that the peak you’ve climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb And the more you climb, the more you want to climb – even though you’re dead tired.
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To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
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In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
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It’s the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I’m not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I’m for nationalization in cases where it’s necessary.
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The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women’s movements of the time; she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
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The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it’s by no means dreadful.
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Now I don’t get upset by unpleasant things, I don’t play the victim, and I’m always ready to come to terms with life.
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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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