Nyerere Quotes

#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. 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

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

Julius Nyerere

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Julius Nyerere

#9. Child, people always look for guilt outside themselves. A person chooses the role of the victim.

Johanna Verweerd

#10. 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

#11. I'm still waiting to hit it big. But there was the moment when I didn't have to work at the restaurant anymore, which is the milestone for every actor. When your job is just to be an actor and not to have to do anything else.

Lizzy Caplan

#12. 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

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

Julius Nyerere

#14. 'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

Saul Williams

#15. Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

Brett Ratner

#16. I liked writing, and I loved movies, obsessively loved movies, but I had never made the leap of thinking I would actually come out here and write stuff.

Robert Ben Garant

#17. 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

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

Julius Nyerere

#19. Black Eyed Peas is a chameleon group.

Will.i.am

#20. 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

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

Julius Nyerere

#22. There is no time to waste. We must either unite now or perish.

Julius Nyerere

#23. Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it.

Julius Nyerere

#24. If real development is to take place, the people have to be involved.

Julius Nyerere

#25. The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live

Julius Nyerere

#26. No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people.

Julius Nyerere

#27. Be afraid in proportion to the threat.

Dean Koontz

#28. The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know how machines worked: needed to take them apart, make them better, and put them back together again.

Jon Evans

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

Julius Nyerere

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Julius Nyerere

#33. Apparently, the pathfinder duck is a psychological archetype in certain cultures.

Michael Leunig