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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Indira Gandhi

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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Country Defeat Democracy Military
The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
INDIRA GANDHI

Ideas Myself
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
Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.
INDIRA GANDHI

Growth Peace People Poor Prosperity Rich
I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
INDIRA GANDHI

Patriot Proud Understand
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
As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
INDIRA GANDHI

Believe Nation
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
INDIRA GANDHI

Beginning Deep End Reality
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Father Mother Personality
Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
INDIRA GANDHI

Care Danger Friendship Generosity Help
To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
INDIRA GANDHI

Capability Faith Oneself
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
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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Liberty Men Theory Woman
I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
INDIRA GANDHI

Difficult Life Training
Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
INDIRA GANDHI

Courage Opportunity Perseverance
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 GANDHI

Death Fight Mother Time

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