Indira Gandhi Quotes About Poverty
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For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
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When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children. Or else I'll start studying anthropology - it's a science that's always interested me very much, also in relation to the problem of poverty. Or else I'll go back to studying history - at Oxford I took my degree in history. Or else...I don't know, I'm fascinated by the tribal communities. I might busy myself with them.
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I have certain objectives. They're the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.
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Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among the tribes, the poor who live in the forest, the poor who live on the mountains. Should we ignore them as long as the poor in the cities are better off? And better off with reference to what? To what people wanted ten years ago? Then it seemed like so much. Today it's no longer so much.
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They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!
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Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
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Indira Gandhi
- Born: November 19, 1917
- Died: October 31, 1984
- Occupation: Former Prime Minister of India
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