“When we own up our mistakes some people interpret it as if we are wrong. They too commit mistakes.”

— E. M. S. Namboodiripad

Quoted in Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,

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Indian politician 1909–1998

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