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.
INDIRA GANDHIOpportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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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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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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The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.
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You soon realize that the peak you’ve climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb And the more you climb, the more you want to climb – even though you’re dead tired.
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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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Ability is not always gauged by examination.
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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
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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.
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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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The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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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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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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