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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.

Indira Gandhi

Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.
INDIRA GANDHI

Growth Peace People Poor Prosperity Rich
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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Art Politics Power
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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Freedom Nation Strength
Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
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Defeat Pain Victory
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Father Ideas Mindset
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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Capacity Enemy Liberty Men Personality
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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Desire Function Politics
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
When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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Selfish Young
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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Beginning Deep End Reality
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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Liberty Men Theory Woman
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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Afford Nation
It’s not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn’t be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.
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Father Mother Personality
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
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.
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Feeling Future Social Weakness Young
That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
INDIRA GANDHI

Action Necessary Philosophy

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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