Jawaharlal Nehru
(1889-1964)

1st Prime Minister of Independent India
1951 AFSC Nobel Peace Prize Nominee

birthdate: November 14
birthplace:
Allahabad, India

QUOTES

Citizenship
"Citizenship consists in the service of the country"

Diversity
All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments."

Inner Peace
"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul… Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people."

Law
"I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government."

Peace
The only alternative to coesistence is codestruction

Women
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.

 

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