“I like to think I've provided this faith. I also think that by providing faith, I've focused their pride. I say focused because pride isn't something you give. It doesn't even break out suddenly; it's a feeling that grows very slowly, very confusedly.” ThinkingGivingFeelingsGrowsBreakPrideFocusedProvidingBreak Out Author:Indira Gandhi
“Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.” YearsLastsFivePrideTwentiesFive YearsUnderestimateTwenty Five Author:Indira Gandhi
“You've never been very generous, you Westerners, toward us Indians. You should have seen that things were changing, albeit slowly. You should have seen that something was happening. Not much, but something.” ShouldHappeningsShould HaveGenerousWesterners Author:Indira Gandhi
“It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.” SaidCountryWholeDecisionAidsForeign AidPersonal Decisions Author:Indira Gandhi
“All of a sudden inscriptions appeared on walls. Signs appeared. And that 'no' exploded all over India, in an act of pride that surprised even me. Then even the political parties, all of them, even the deputies in Parliament, said no: it's better to die of hunger than be taken for a nation of beggars.” SaidPoliticalDiesNationsPartyTakenWallPrideIndiaHungerPolitical PartiesParliamentBeggarInscriptionsDeputies Author:Indira Gandhi
“You must also understand us - always undervalued, underestimated, not believed. Even when we believed, you didn't believe us. You said, 'How is it possible to fight without violence?' But without violence we obtained freedom.” BelieveSaidFightingViolenceUnderestimatedUndervalued Author:Indira Gandhi
“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.” PeopleMadeSaidDemocracyDyingHungerIlliteratePeople Who Are Dying Author:Indira Gandhi
“You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded.” SaidCountryTogetherDemocracyPlansErrorsCommittedPlanningCommunist Author:Indira Gandhi