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.
INDIRA GANDHIUntil 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.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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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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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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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.
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Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
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There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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