“Highest character and integrity must be developed and all personal ambitions must be erased for the common good of the Nation.”

—  Fatima Jinnah

1948, Address to All Pakistan Muslim Youth Convention at Karachi, quoted in Speeches, Messages and Statements of Mohtarama Fatima Jinnah, p. 5

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