A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.Jawaharlal Nehru
“The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.”
First Prime Minister of India · 1889 – 1964
Leader of India's independence movement and the country's first Prime Minister (1947-1964).
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