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.
INDIRA GANDHIIn all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage – courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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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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Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
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Muslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out in the doli, a kind of closed sedan chair like a catafalque. My mother always told me about these things with bitterness and rage.
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Just when you think you’ve achieved something, you realize you’ve achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same – toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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