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Indira Gandhi

You don’t help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
INDIRA GANDHI

Country Defeat Democracy Military
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
We 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 GANDHI

Evil Existance Justice Struggle
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
INDIRA GANDHI

Art Politics Power
I learned very soon to get along by myself.
INDIRA GANDHI

Learning Myself
Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
INDIRA GANDHI

Deep Forget Silence
There is not love where there is no will.
INDIRA GANDHI

Love Willing
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
INDIRA GANDHI

Bravery Forgiveness History Virtue
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Developing Helping Nations
Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
INDIRA GANDHI

Appreciate Diversity Endurance Justice Logic
It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.
INDIRA GANDHI

Feeling Future Social Weakness Young
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
Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
INDIRA GANDHI

Brave One Liner Virtue
I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
INDIRA GANDHI

Fall In Love Myself
Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
INDIRA GANDHI

Easy Worth
As 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 GANDHI

Father Ideas Mindset

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