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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

Indira Gandhi

Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage – courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow.
INDIRA GANDHI

Different Intellectual Mind Philosophy Practice
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.
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Evil Existance Justice Struggle
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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Afford Nation
As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.
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Difficult Easy Myself Time
A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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Freedom Nation Strength
We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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Ourselves Patriot Starve
Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
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Courage Opportunity Perseverance
When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
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Complaint Impossible People Resistance Selfish
To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.
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Blessing Children Investment Religious
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.
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Age Class Education Force Liberty
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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Faith Inspirational Summer
Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
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Forget Goddess Strength
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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Art Politics Power
People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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Hands Inspirational Life People Women
The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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Earth Peace
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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Eyes Mother Oppression Rage Woman

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