I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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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in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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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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I don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
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As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
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Muslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out in the doli, a kind of closed sedan chair like a catafalque. My mother always told me about these things with bitterness and rage.
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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
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To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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