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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.

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
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Indira Nehru
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
Indira Ghandi
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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 think I'm cold, indeed icy, hard. Then there's another reason, one that goes with my frankness: I don't put on act.
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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated.
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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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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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I grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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I would like to ask a question. Would this sort of war or savage bombing which has taken place in Vietnam have been tolerated for so long, had the people been European?
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A revolution is already taking place in India. Things are changing here already - peacefully and democratically. There's no danger of communism. There would be if we had a rightist government instead of mine.
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Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.
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My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.
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I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.
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I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious ambition may help him see reality.
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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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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There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy.
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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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Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.
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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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I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.
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