Top 39 Julius Nyerere Sayings
#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. Mwalimu Julius Nyerere was a father to his family. To Tanzania he was a defender of a dream.
Enock Maregesi
#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. You cannot develop people. You must allow people to develop themselves.
Julius Nyerere
#5. Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts.
Julius Nyerere
#6. 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
#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. You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.
Yo-Yo Ma
#9. Folk parapsychology, an art and science designed to enable people to make effective use of their psychic talents
Isaac Bonewits
#10. Most things are beyond me," Block said. "I ain't found anything yet that I thoroughly understood,
Flannery O'Connor
#11. 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
#12. Has worrying about tomorrow every changed it?
Max Lucado
#13. 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
#14. African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.
Julius Nyerere
#16. 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
#17. We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means.
Rajneesh
#18. 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
#19. In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.
Julius Nyerere
#20. 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
#21. No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people.
Julius Nyerere
#22. I have little hesitation in saying that as a result a sickly pall now hangs over the big bang theory. As I have mentioned earlier, when a pattern of facts becomes set against a theory, experience shows that it rarely recovers.
Fred Hoyle
#23. The African is not 'Communistic' in his thinking; he is
if I may coin an expression - 'communitary'.
Julius Nyerere
#24. The Dalai Lama is rumored to have said that being able to have sex without any attachment would take the level of attainment of being able to eat either chocolate cake or dog shit without any preference between the two.
Noah Levine
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.
Julius Nyerere
#28. How many people could embrace such disturbing imagery?
Novala Takemoto
#30. The beauty of my job is that I get to see more of that America. And that feeds me.
Michelle Obama
#31. Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.
Julius Nyerere
#33. The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live
Julius Nyerere
#34. If real development is to take place, the people have to be involved.
Julius Nyerere
#35. Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it.
Julius Nyerere
#36. There is no time to waste. We must either unite now or perish.
Julius Nyerere
#39. On the morning in question, she wore white shorts and a pink T-shirt that featured a green dragon breathing a fire of orange glitter. It is difficult to explain how awesome I found this T-shirt at the time.
John Green
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