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Indira Gandhi

As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it – otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.
INDIRA GANDHI

Father Ideas Mindset
Difficulties can’t be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them. The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It’s all right to fight, yes, but only when it’s possible.
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Acceptance Country Difficult Fight Life Right
Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.
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Age Class Education Force Liberty
I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
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Blood Death Life People Strength
Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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Change Design Pioneers Rebel
You don’t help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
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Country Defeat Democracy Military
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.
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Evil Existance Justice Struggle
Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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Easy Worth
I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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Unity World
I have certain objectives. They’re the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.
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Cancer Father Live People
I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
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Children Understand Victim Woman
The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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Earth Peace
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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Liberty Men Theory Woman
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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Birth Control Mean Men
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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Afford Nation
It’s not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn’t be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.
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Father Mother Personality

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