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 GANDHIThe immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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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.
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Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
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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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The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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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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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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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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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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I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.
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As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.
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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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That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
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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.
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