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Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

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Indira Gandhi
Age: 66 †
Born: 1917
Born: November 19
Died: 1984
Died: October 31
Former Prime Minister Of India
Politician
Writer
Prayag
Indira Nehru
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
Indira Ghandi
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Peace
War
Culture
Diversity
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Disease
Ignorance
Poverty

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If you only knew what it did to me to have lived in that house where the police were bursting in to take everyone away! I certainly didn't have a happy and serene childhood.
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No one wanted that marriage, no one. Even Mahatma Gandhi wasn't happy about it. As for my father...it's not true that he opposed it, as people say, but he wasn't eager for it. I suppose because the fathers of only daughters would prefer to see them get married as late as possible.
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People who say it was her father who prepared her for the post of prime minister, it was her father who launched her, are wrong.
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I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.
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Little by little I changed my mind, and when I was about eighteen, I began to consider the possibility of getting married. Not to have a husband, but to have children.
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It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.
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Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.
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The Indians and Pakistanis are literally brothers.
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I've always discovered things for myself, in marvelous freedom.
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My father cared very much about courage, physical courage as well. He despised those who didn't have it. But he never said to me, 'I want you to be courageous.' He just smiled with pride every time I did something difficult or won a race with the boys.
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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.
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I don't see the world as something divided between right and left.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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No one ever indoctrinated me.
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I suspected [Richard Nixon] was very pro-Pakistan. Or rather I knew that the Americans had always been in favor of Pakistan - not so much because they were in favor of Pakistan, but because they were against India.
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When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.
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