Top 37 Julius Nyerere Best Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Julius Nyerere Best

#1. In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.

Bonnie Raitt

#2. Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.

Julius Nyerere

#3. We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past
in the traditional society which produced us.

Julius Nyerere

#4. Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts.

Julius Nyerere

#5. I have read and re-read the Arusha Declaration and found nothing wrong with it except perhaps replacing a few commas here and there ... it was clear for some of us that it would only be a mad man who would stand up and defend the Arusha Declaration.

Julius Nyerere

#6. ... "shagging" - a quasi-comical activity, like belching or farting, except it was more taboo and more necessary than these.

Amit Chaudhuri

#7. Decisions made in Washington are more important to us than those made here in Dar es-Salaam. So, maybe my people should be allowed to vote in American presidential elections.

Julius Nyerere

#8. We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.

Julius Nyerere

#9. Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.

Julius Nyerere

#10. African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.

Julius Nyerere

#11. I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.

T. J. Miller

#12. The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war.

Laozi

#13. In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would
make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil
rights.

Julius Nyerere

#14. A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor.

Julius Nyerere

#15. A lot of things in life seem impossible until it's done. Don't be afraid to attempt the impossible.

Rita Zahara

#16. In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.

Julius Nyerere

#17. Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.

Marjane Satrapi

#18. Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty.

Julius Nyerere

#19. You cannot develop people. You must allow people to develop themselves.

Julius Nyerere

#20. The basic idea is always constructed around piano or guitar and a voice, that's what we live and die by, because if you build up from that foundation, it's going to be strong.

Wesley Schultz

#21. Mwalimu Julius Nyerere was a father to his family. To Tanzania he was a defender of a dream.

Enock Maregesi

#22. The African is not 'Communistic' in his thinking; he is
if I may coin an expression - 'communitary'.

Julius Nyerere

#23. If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside.

Julius Nyerere

#24. I am quite sure that if we could but once approach the Most Holy Sacrament with great faith and love, it would suffice to make us rich. How much more so if we approach it often!

Teresa Of Avila

#25. Cooperation and conflict are two sides of the same coin; both arise out of man's relationship with his fellows. The larger the group, the greater the possibility of development through cooperation, and the greater the possibility of conflict.

Julius Nyerere

#26. Nothing human surprises me.

Charles Willeford

#27. Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.

Julius Nyerere

#28. Once people were born alive and slowly they died. Now one is born dead and slowly has to come to life.

Roberto Bazlen

#29. The funnel-shaped devices are tremie tubes, which are apparently being used to avoid having the wet concrete free fall into the forms where the 4-cubic-yard buckets could not fit to pour directly.

Ray Bottenberg

#30. You need anything else ...
You to touch me like I matter ...

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#31. Jimmy [Dean] was the most talented and original actor I ever saw work. He was also a guerrilla artist who attacked all restrictions on his sensibility. Once he pulled a switchblade and threatened to murder his director. I imitated his style in art and in life. It got me in a lot of trouble.

Dennis Hopper

#32. In a long life there are thirty or thirty-five thousand days to be got through, but only a few dozen that really matter, Big Days when Something Momentous Happens. The rest - the vast majority, tens of thousands of days - are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous.

William Landay