Jomo Kenyatta Quotes

#1. Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.

Jomo Kenyatta

#2. God said this is our land, land in which we flourish as people ... we want our cattle to get fat on our land so that our children grow up in prosperity; and we do not want the fat removed to feed others.

Jomo Kenyatta

#3. The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.

Jomo Kenyatta

#4. To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living, and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines.

Jomo Kenyatta

#5. Unity cannot be taken for granted.

Jomo Kenyatta

#6. Some people try deliberately to exploit the colonial hangover for their own purpose, to serve an external force. To us, Communism is as bad as imperialism.

Jomo Kenyatta

#7. You and I must work together to develop our country, to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve or provide all day-to-day essentials.

Jomo Kenyatta

#8. Don't be fooled into turning to Communism looking for food.

Jomo Kenyatta

#9. I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.

Jomo Kenyatta