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I don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

Indira Gandhi

We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
INDIRA GANDHI

Ourselves Patriot Starve
To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
INDIRA GANDHI

Capability Faith Oneself
Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
INDIRA GANDHI

Courage Opportunity Perseverance
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Cure Injustice Story
A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
INDIRA GANDHI

Freedom Nation Strength
Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
INDIRA GANDHI

Brave One Liner Virtue
I learned very soon to get along by myself.
INDIRA GANDHI

Learning Myself
I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
INDIRA GANDHI

Difficult Life Training
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
INDIRA GANDHI

People Politics Remember Right Rights
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Eyes Mother Oppression Rage Woman
To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.
INDIRA GANDHI

Blessing Children Investment Religious
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
INDIRA GANDHI

Afford Nation
Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
INDIRA GANDHI

Change Design Pioneers Rebel
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Different Intellectual Mind Philosophy Practice
For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
INDIRA GANDHI

Change Poverty
Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
INDIRA GANDHI

Life Myself One Liner Process

I don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

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