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Rajiv Gandhi Quotes

Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people. The goal is material, cultural and spiritual fulfilment for the people. The human factor is of supreme value in development.

Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people. The goal is material, cultural and spiritual fulfilment for the people. The human factor is of supreme value in development.

Rajiv Gandhi
Spiritual, People, Goal
Rajiv Gandhi (1987). “Selected speeches and writings”

India is an Old country but a young nation…I am young and I too have a dream, I dream of India Strong, Independent, Self-Reliant and in the front rank of the nations of the world, in the service of mankind.

Rajiv Gandhi
Dream, Country, Strong
C. K. Jain, Rajiv Gandhi, India. Parliament. Lok Sabha (1992). “Rajiv Gandhi and Parliament”

Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.

Rajiv Gandhi
Past, Years, Differences
Rajiv Gandhi (1987). “Selected speeches and writings”

Women are the social conscience of a country. They hold our societies together.

Rajiv Gandhi
Country, Together, Our Society
Rajiv Gandhi (1987). “Selected speeches and writings”

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

Rajiv Gandhi
Powerful, Fall, People

If farmers become weak the country loses self-reliance but if they are strong, freedom also becomes strong. If we do not maintain our progress in agriculture, poverty cannot be eliminated from India.But our biggest poverty alleviation programme is to improve the living standard of our farmers. The thrust of our poverty alleviation programmes is on the uplift of the farmers.

Rajiv Gandhi
Uplifting, Country, Strong

Every person should take a lesson from history. We should understand that wherever there have been internal fights and conflicts in the country, the country has been weakened. Due to this, the danger from outside increases. The country has to pay a big price due to this type of weakness.

Rajiv Gandhi
Country, Fighting, Weakness
Address to the party workers, November 12, 1984.

When a big tree falls, the ground shakes

Rajiv Gandhi
Fall, Tree, Bigs

Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people.

Rajiv Gandhi
Past, People, Twenties
Rajiv Gandhi (1985*). “Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: statements on foreign policy, May-August 1985”

She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the Indian people to the last drop of her blood.

Rajiv Gandhi
Mother, Blood, People
Rajiv Gandhi (1987). “Selected speeches and writings”

We must see that regional imbalances in the growth of various parties of the country are removed and all the states progress evenly. We shall ensure that all citizens of the country get full opportunity to contribute their might towards India's progress.

Rajiv Gandhi
Country, Party, Opportunity
Independence Day speech, August 15, 1985.

Thinking of this University [Ambedkar University] today, we are reminded of Mahatma Gandhi because if there was anyone who fought for the weak in India, the first one to raise his voice for Scheduled Castes, that was Gandhiji. There were social workers before him but not any people who raised this matter in the political arena as he did.

Rajiv Gandhi
Thinking, Voice, People
Rajiv Gandhi (1991). “Selected Speeches and Writings: January 1989 to November 1989”

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