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Top 20 Julius Nyerere Quotes (2025 Update)

Julius Nyerere Quote: “Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it.”

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

— Julius Nyerere

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Julius Nyerere Quote: “You cannot develop people. You must allow people to develop themselves.”

2. “You cannot develop people. You must allow people to develop themselves.”

— Julius Nyerere

Julius Nyerere Quote: “There is no time to waste. We must either unite now or perish.”

3. “There is no time to waste. We must either unite now or perish.”

— Julius Nyerere

Julius Nyerere Quote: “The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live.”

4. “The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live.”

— Julius Nyerere

Julius Nyerere Quote: “Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.”

5. “Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.”

— Julius Nyerere

Julius Nyerere Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Julius Nyerere Quote: “In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.”

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

— Julius Nyerere

Julius Nyerere Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Julius Nyerere Quote: “If real development is to take place, the people have to be involved.”

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

— Julius Nyerere

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

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

— Julius Nyerere

Julius Nyerere Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Julius Nyerere Quote: “African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.”

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

— Julius Nyerere

Julius Nyerere Quote: “Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.”

13. “Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.”

— Julius Nyerere

Julius Nyerere Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Julius Nyerere Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Julius Nyerere Quote: “Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts.”

16. “Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts.”

— Julius Nyerere

Julius Nyerere Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Julius Nyerere Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Julius Nyerere Quote: “We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.”

19. “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

Julius Nyerere Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Julius Nyerere Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Julius Nyerere Quote: “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.”

22. “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

Julius Nyerere Quote: “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.”

23. “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

Julius Nyerere Quote: “Moyo kabla ya silaha.”

24. “Moyo kabla ya silaha.”

— Julius Nyerere

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