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Had your mother not been so well-organized, so simple, so virtuous and so resourceful, I would not have been what I am today.

— Zakir Hussain Quest for Truth (1999)

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I have after years of thinking on the subject come to the conviction that work is the only instrument of effective education. It may sometimes be manual work, at others, non-manual work.

Uniqueness of Zakir Husain and His Contributions (1997)

For God’s sake, reform and improve the politics of our country.

Quest for Truth (1999)

Education should be able to distinguish between the heritage that helps and that heritage hampers the tradition that undermines and the tradition that fortifies.

Our sweat is the answer to all our problems, and that the tiller, the artisan and the teacher are the three agents who feed the body, mind and soul.

Uniqueness of Zakir Husain and His Contributions (1997)

Education is the master and politics is its servant. It is necessary to combine power with morality as well as with science and technology

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