We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
INDIRA GANDHIAs 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.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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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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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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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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To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
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I have certain objectives. They’re the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.
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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
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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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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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