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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.

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
Government
Mines
Things
Mine
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Democratically
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Communism
Already
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India

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Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
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It was the very fact that no one ever imposed anything on me or tried to impose himself on the others.
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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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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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Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
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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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Just when you think you've achieved something, you realize you've achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same - toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.
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Until today the rights of people have always been put forward by a few individuals acting in the name of the masses. Today instead of people no longer want to be represented each wants to speak for himself and participate directly - it's the same for the Negroes, for the Jews, for women.
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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.
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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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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to have led a difficult life, and many people in my generation have had this privilege - I sometimes wonder if young people today aren't deprived of the dramas that shaped us.
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My father was a saint. I'm not.
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When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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Everything I've done, I've done because I wanted to do it. In doing it, I've plunged in headlong, always believing in 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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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.
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By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism.
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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