If you only knew what it did to me to have lived in that house where the police were bursting in to take everyone away! I certainly didn't have a happy and serene childhood.

The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it's by no means dreadful.

We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.

I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities.

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

My children needed me, and I like my job as a social worker.

The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.