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I don't see the world as something divided between right and left.

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
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Right
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World

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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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We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us.
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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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Home is wherever I go.
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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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The struggle for independence here has been conducted in equal measure by men and by women. And when we got our independence, no one forgot that. In the Western world, on the other hand, nothing of the kind has ever happened - women have participated, yes, but revolutions have always been made by men alone.
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.
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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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When you look at the beginning of the actual war, it's not hard to recognize that the Pakistanis were the ones to attack.
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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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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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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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it.
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I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities.
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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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I've always discovered things for myself, in marvelous freedom.
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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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