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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.

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
Duty
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Freedom
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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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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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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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I know you were surprised when, after the fall of Dacca, Pakistani and Indian officers shook hands. But do you realize that, up until 1965, in our army and the Pakistani one you could come across generals who were brothers? Blood brothers, sons of the same father and the same mother.
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I always wanted to have children - if it had been up to me, I would have had eleven. It was my husband who wanted only two.
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My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands in politics - to meet people, to know their games, their secrets.
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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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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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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 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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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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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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[Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the class system and the oppression of women that an untouchable woman became for him the epitome of purity and benediction.
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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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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 we do now, on the other hand...Don't think that I'm crazy about this kind of politics. It's no accident that I've done everything to keep my sons out of it, and so far I've succeeded. After independence I retired immediately from politics.
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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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No one ever indoctrinated me.
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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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