Julius Nyerere Quotes

“The education provided must therefore encourage the development in each citizen of three things; an inquiring mind; and ability to learn from what others do, and reject or adapt it to his own needs; and a basic confidence in his own position as a free and equal member of the society, who values others and is valued by them for what he does and not for what he obtains.”
― Julius Nyerere

“No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people.”
― Julius Nyerere

“Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere alikuwa baba kwa familia yake. Kwa Tanzania alikuwa mlezi; wa ndoto ya haki, amani, uzalendo, ujamaa, na uhuru.”
― Enock Maregesi

“In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a man's skin the criteria for granting him civil rights.”
― Julius Nyerere

“And just as, in the First Scramble for Africa, one tribe was divided against another tribe to make the division of Africa easier, in the Second Scramble for Africa one nation is going to be divided against another nation to make it easier to control Africa by making her weak and divided against herself”
― Julius Nyerere

“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

“A nation which refuses to learn from foreign culture is nothing but a nation of idiots and lunatics... But to learn from other cultures does not mean we should abandon our own.”
― Julius Nyerere

“Moyo kabla ya silaha”
― Julius Nyerere

“Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere alikuwa mtetezi wa uafrika. Kwa sababu yake tunajua sisi ni nani.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Kuna tetesi kuwa Julius Nyerere alipewa tuzo ya MBE na malkia wa Uingereza akiwa rais wa Tanzania! Lakini aliikataa! Kwa nini? Kwa sababu angeonekana Mwingereza zaidi kuliko Mtanzania! Januari 26, 1996 akapewa Tuzo ya Kimataifa ya Amani ya Mahatma Gandhi ya mwaka 1995, ya kwanza kabisa, iliyotolewa na Serikali ya India. Lakini hiyo pia akaikataa! Kwa sababu Mahatma Gandhi alimwaga damu katika harakati zake za kuwang'oa wakoloni barani Afrika! Kama ni kweli, hakuna kujitolea kuliko huko.”
― Enock Maregesi

“The simplicity of President Magufuli with regard to savings and protecting the national economy is that of the Father of the Nation, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere. His responsibilities (to him) appear to be simple assignable to the gift of authority, given to him by God.”
― Enock Maregesi

“The development of the peoples means a rebellion”
― Julius Nyerere

“Socialism, like democracy, is an attitude of mind”
― Julius Nyerere

“Our need is not for brakes to social change... -our lack of trained manpower and capital resources, and even our climate, act too effectively already”
― Julius Nyerere

“If you want to know one of my most fundamental convictions, it is that I am completely non-racialist. I do not understand racialism at all.”
― Julius Nyerere

“Will before weapons”
― Julius Nyerere

“Give them the education which will train their heads to refuse the wretchedness of mind and skill their hands to develop the resources of Africa.”
― Julius Nyerere

“Peace is born of hope, when hope is gone there will be social upheavals”
― Julius Nyerere

“One does not judge one's state of health by comparing it to that of a sick person”
― Julius Nyerere

“I am an individual and I respect my own individuality. But I am an individual and a member of a community. And a community has conditions. All the commandments - Thou Shalt Not - are about community”
― Julius Nyerere