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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.

Indira Gandhi

Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
INDIRA GANDHI

Forget Goddess Strength
I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
INDIRA GANDHI

Patriot Proud Understand
The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
INDIRA GANDHI

Born Control
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Blood Development Growth Independence Nation Patriot Strong
To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.
INDIRA GANDHI

Blessing Children Investment Religious
Difficulties can’t be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them. The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It’s all right to fight, yes, but only when it’s possible.
INDIRA GANDHI

Acceptance Country Difficult Fight Life Right
It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.
INDIRA GANDHI

Feeling Future Social Weakness Young
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Eyes Mother Oppression Rage Woman
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
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
The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
INDIRA GANDHI

Company Life Need Young
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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Desire Function Politics
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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Beginning Deep End Reality
There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
INDIRA GANDHI

Atheist Eat Existence Memorable Women
To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
INDIRA GANDHI

Enjoyment Mother Sacrifice
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Evil Existance Justice Struggle

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