Indira Gandhi citations

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi , née Nehru, le 19 novembre 1917 et morte le 31 octobre 1984, est une femme d'État indienne, Première ministre de 1966 à 1977 puis de 1980 à sa mort en 1984.

Fille unique de Jawaharlal Nehru, le premier Premier ministre de l'Inde, elle est la deuxième femme au monde élue démocratiquement à la tête d'un gouvernement, après Sirimavo Bandaranaike au Sri Lanka et avant Golda Meir en Israel. C'est une figure majeure du Congrès et de la politique indienne de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle et ses mandats à la tête de l'Inde sont marqués par une forte centralisation du pouvoir. Elle mène la troisième guerre indo-pakistanaise, développe un programme d'armes nucléaires et accroit l'influence de l'Inde sur l'Asie du Sud. Son gouvernement préside à la Révolution verte et à la nationalisation des banques et des principales industries. De 1975 à 1977, Indira Gandhi instaure un état d'urgence controversé qui lui permet de suspendre les libertés publiques.

Défaite en 1977, Indira Gandhi redevient Première ministre à la suite des élections de 1980. Elle est assassinée en 1984 par ses gardes du corps sikhs après avoir ordonné l'attaque du Temple d'Or contre les séparatistes du Pendjab. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. novembre 1917 – 31. octobre 1984  •  Autres noms Indira Gándhíová
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Indira Gandhi: Citations en anglais

“You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.”

Indíra Gándhí

Attributed
Variante: You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

“We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.”

Indíra Gándhí

Luther King&quot; http://gos.sbc.edu/g/gandhi2.html&quot;Martin, speech at the presentation of the Jawaharial Nehru Award for International Understanding to Coretta Scott King in New Delhi, India (January 24, 1969). Published in Selected Speeches and Writings of Indira Gandhi, September 1972-March 1977 (New Delhi : Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 1984. pp. 312-313). <br class="br">Contexte: We admired Dr. King. We felt his loss as our own. The tragedy rekindled memories of the great martyrs of all time who gave their lives so that men might live and grow. We thought of the great men in your own country who fell to the assassin&#x27;s bullet and of Mahatma Gandhi&#x27;s martyrdom here in this city, this very month, twenty-one years ago. Such events remain as wounds in the human consciousness, reminding us of battles, yet to be fought and tasks still to be accomplished. We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

“We admired Dr. King. We felt his loss as our own. The tragedy rekindled memories of the great martyrs of all time who gave their lives so that men might live and grow.”

Indíra Gándhí

Luther King&quot; http://gos.sbc.edu/g/gandhi2.html&quot;Martin, speech at the presentation of the Jawaharial Nehru Award for International Understanding to Coretta Scott King in New Delhi, India (January 24, 1969). Published in Selected Speeches and Writings of Indira Gandhi, September 1972-March 1977 (New Delhi : Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 1984. pp. 312-313). <br class="br">Contexte: We admired Dr. King. We felt his loss as our own. The tragedy rekindled memories of the great martyrs of all time who gave their lives so that men might live and grow. We thought of the great men in your own country who fell to the assassin&#x27;s bullet and of Mahatma Gandhi&#x27;s martyrdom here in this city, this very month, twenty-one years ago. Such events remain as wounds in the human consciousness, reminding us of battles, yet to be fought and tasks still to be accomplished. We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

“A nation's strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.”

Indíra Gándhí

&quot;Preface, 4th Five Year Plan&quot; http://planningcommission.nic.in/plans/planrel/fiveyr/4th/4ppre.htm, Government of India Planning Commission (July 18, 1970).

“You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

Indíra Gándhí

"The Embattled Woman Who Relishes Crosswords, Children...and Running India," People (June 30, 1975).

“There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.”

Indíra Gándhí

Letter to Richard Nixon (December 15, 1971) http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mag/2005/07/03/stories/2005070300090100.htm.

“I am not interested in a long life. I am not afraid of these things. I don't mind if my life goes in the service of this nation. If I die today, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.”

Indíra Gándhí

Source: Speech, Bhubaneswar, India (October 30, 1984), quoted in &quot;Death in the Garden,&quot; by William E. Smith, Time (November 12, 1984) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,926929-3,00.html.

“My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.”

Indíra Gándhí

Quoted in "Indira's Coup," profile by Oriana Fallaci, The New York Review of Books (September 18, 1975).

“To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.”

Indíra Gándhí

&quot;True Liberation Of Women&quot; http://gos.sbc.edu/g/gandhi1.html, speech, inauguration of the All-India Women&#x27;s Conference Building Complex in New Delhi, India (March 26, 1980). Published in Selected Speeches and Writings of Indira Gandhi, September 1972-March 1977 (New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 1984, pp. 417-418).

“All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangladesh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them.”

Indíra Gándhí

Referring to the fundamental rights of &quot;Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness&quot; in the United States Declaration of Independence in a letter to Richard Nixon (December 15, 1971). http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mag/2005/07/03/stories/2005070300090100.htm.

“India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”

Indíra Gándhí

Press conference, New Delhi (October 19, 1971), quoted in "Indian and Pakistani Armies Confront Each Other Along Borders" by Sydney H. Schanberg, The New York Times (October 20, 1971), page 6C.

“Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.”

Indíra Gándhí

Address to Parliament announcing the victory of Bangladesh-India Forces over the Pakistan Army, (December 16, 1971) http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/1971/Dec16/index.html.

“Indira is India and India is Indira.”

Indíra Gándhí

Sidhartha Shankar Ray in: SACRIFICIAL GOATS SCAPEGOATS and GUINEA PIGs: Misadventures and Misrepresentations http://books.google.com/books?id=2HiRtyt2iWEC&amp;pg=PA79, AuthorHouse, 2007, p. 79 <br class="br">Her ardent follower coined this sentence during Emergency.

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