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The India I want, I'll never tire of repeating, is a more just and less poor India, one entirely free of foreign influences. If I thought the country was already marching toward these objectives, I'd give up politics immediately and retire as prime minister.

Indira Gandhi

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Indira Gandhi
Age: 66 †
Born: 1917
Born: November 19
Died: 1984
Died: October 31
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Whether when I was a child and fought the British in the Monkey brigade, or when I was a girl and wanted to have children, or when I was a woman and devoted myself to my father, making my husband angry. Each time I stayed involved all the way in my decision, and took the consequences. Even if I was fighting for things that didn't concern India.
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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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Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
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Until I was about eighteen, yes [I didn't want to get married]. But not because I felt like a suffragette, but because I wanted to devote all my energies to the struggle to free India. Marriage, I thought, would have distracted me from the duties I'd imposed on myself.
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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 statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.
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If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.
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