47 Quotes by 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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The development of the peoples means a rebellion

One does not judge one's state of health by comparing it to that of a sick person

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.