Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
INDIRA GANDHIThe purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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My father was a saint. I’m not.
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For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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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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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.
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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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I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.
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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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In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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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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