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Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

Indira Gandhi

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
INDIRA GANDHI

Beginning Deep End Reality
Just when you think you’ve achieved something, you realize you’ve achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same – toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.
INDIRA GANDHI

Achievement Beginning Dream End Thinking Yourself
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
INDIRA GANDHI

Desire Function Politics
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
The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
INDIRA GANDHI

Difficult Future Scare
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
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
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
INDIRA GANDHI

Faith Inspirational Summer
It’s the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I’m not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I’m for nationalization in cases where it’s necessary.
INDIRA GANDHI

Cure Injustice Story
Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
INDIRA GANDHI

Danger Myself Thinking
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Birth Control Mean Men
I learned very soon to get along by myself.
INDIRA GANDHI

Learning Myself
When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
INDIRA GANDHI

Complaint Impossible People Resistance Selfish
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Age Class Education Force Liberty
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
INDIRA GANDHI

Art Politics Power
To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
INDIRA GANDHI

Capability Faith Oneself

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