Quotes by Julius Nyerere

Julius Nyerere

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.

Children

Eggs

Home

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

Africanism

Dangerous

Patriotism

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.

Groups

Men

Two Sides

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.

Decision

People

Presidential

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

Fighting

Poverty

Way

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.

Freedom

Mean

Rhinos

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.

Doors

Made

Should

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

Development

People

Real

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

Believe

Men

Rights

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

Hundred

Lost

Tanzania

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Believe

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Dangerous

Debt

Decision

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Determination

Development

Doors

Effectiveness

Eggs

Evil

Expression

Fighting

Freedom

Government

Groups

Home

Hundred

Julius

Lost

Made

Mean

Men

Nations

No Time To Waste

Opportunity

Patriotism

People

Population

Poverty

Presidential

Real

Rhinos

Rights

Self

Should

Tanzania

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Two Sides

Waste

Way

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Quotes by Julius Nyerere

Julius Nyerere

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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