“All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim even…”

“All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangladesh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them.”

— Indira Gandhi

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Title: Wikiquote: Indira Gandhi
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Context

Referring to the fundamental rights of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" in the United States Declaration of Independence in a letter to Richard Nixon (December 15, 1971).[http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mag/2005/07/03/stories/2005070300090100.htm].

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Gandhi, Indira. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Indira Gandhi. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Indira_Gandhi

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