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.
INDIRA GANDHII 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.
INDIRA GANDHII am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
INDIRA GANDHIWomen sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
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.
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.
INDIRA GANDHIThe greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
INDIRA GANDHIYou must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
INDIRA GANDHIThe old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
INDIRA GANDHII fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
INDIRA GANDHIin today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
INDIRA GANDHINever forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
INDIRA GANDHIMankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
INDIRA GANDHIThe 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.
INDIRA GANDHIWithout 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 GANDHII don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
INDIRA GANDHIMuslim 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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