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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
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.
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Death Fight Mother Time
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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Beginning Deep End Reality
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Capacity Enemy Liberty Men Personality
When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
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Complaint Impossible People Resistance Selfish
When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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Selfish Young
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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People Politics Remember Right Rights
I learned very soon to get along by myself.
INDIRA GANDHI

Learning Myself
Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
INDIRA GANDHI

Democracy River Women
in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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Country Independent Philosophy World
Now I don’t get upset by unpleasant things, I don’t play the victim, and I’m always ready to come to terms with life.
INDIRA GANDHI

Life Play Upset Victim
There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
INDIRA GANDHI

Contentment Happiness Moments
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
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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Believe Hope Life Purpose
I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
INDIRA GANDHI

Job Myself Talk
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
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Funny Himself Kind Leadership Success

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