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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
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Indira Nehru
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
Indira Ghandi
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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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My father was a saint. I'm not.
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The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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No one ever indoctrinated me.
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I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.
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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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I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
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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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