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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.

Indira Gandhi

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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
Brave
Virtue
Forgiveness

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For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
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I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.
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My father was a saint. I'm not.
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If by happiness you mean ecstasy ... Yes, I've known ecstasy, and it's a blessing to be able to say it because those who can say it are very few. But ecstasy doesn't last long and is seldom if ever repeated.
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Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.
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Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.
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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.
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.
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We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us.
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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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Still, in international matters, the treaty changes nothing. That is, it doesn't prevent us from being friends with other countries, which indeed we are.
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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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We must protect families, we must protect children, who have inalienable rights and should be loved, should be taken care of physically and mentally, and should not be brought into the world only to suffer.
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For me it's absolutely the same - I treat one and the other in exactly the same way. As persons, that is, not as men and women. But, even here, you have to consider the fact that I've had a very special education, that I'm the daughter of a man like my father and a woman like my mother.
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I assure you we'll go on making our decisions without worrying whether it pleases or displeases the Soviet Union, China, America, France, or anyone else.
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There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
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I began to associate with Mahatma Gandhi when he came and went in our house - together with my father and mother he was on the executive committee. After independence I worked with him a lot - in the period when there were the troubles between Hindus and Muslims, he assigned me to take care of the Muslims. To protect them.
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When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.
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Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.
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