Communal madness will distroy us. It will destroy everything India stands for.
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Secularism is the bedrock of our nationhood. It implies more than tolerance. It involved an active effort for harmony.
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Secularism is the basis of our unity.
Communalism and all other narrow loyalties are incompatible with unity.
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Today when we talk of Swadeshi, we do not mean Khadi alone. We mean indigenous industry, indigenous computer and power from indigenous atomic energy sources.
The meaning of Swadeshi has undergone a sea-chanbge and it goes to prove how much progress India has made.
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
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She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the Indian people to the last drop of her blood.
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Non-involvement in quarrels that are not our making is another essential aspect of peaceful co-existence.
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There are obstacles in our way, the biggest internal dissensions based on religion, caste, language or region
We must make sure that these dissensions do not acquire extremist dimensions. They weaken the country and retard its progress.
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India’s strength has traditionally been its inner spiritual stength, a strength which cuts across all regions, a strength which is derived from a greater dharma.
If this spiritual strength is lost in the process of economic modernisation, India will not have been strengthened. In fact, it would have been weakened.
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The Non-Aligned Movement is democracy raised to the world stage, above mere national boundaries, a democracy of the international community.
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We have demonstrated that even if we have the capability, we have the will for not proliferating the nuclear arms race.
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Technology is a tool of man’s creation, a creation of the human mind. It must not be allowed to become the master.
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We have to revive the tradition to fight for the poor and the oppressed. Only by doing so shall we gain the strength to create the India of our dreams.
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The country needs a politics of service to the poor.
The country needs a politics based on ideology and programmes.
To bring this about, we must break the nexus between political parties and vested interests.
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Let us build an India
- proud of her independence;
- powerful in defence of her freedom;
- strong, self-reliant in agriculture, industry and front-rank technology;
- united by bonds transending barriers of caste, creed and region;
- liberated from the bondage of poverty, and of social and economic inequality.
- disciplined and efficient;
- fortified by ethical and spiritual values;
- a fearless force for peace on earth;
- the school of the world, blending the inner repose of the spirit with material progress;
- a new civilisation, with the strength of our heritae, the creativity of the springtime of youth and the unconquerable spirit of our people.