Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
INDIRA GANDHIWe 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.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it’s by no means dreadful.
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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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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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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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I learned very soon to get along by myself.
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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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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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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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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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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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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’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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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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