Julius Nyerere
Father of Tanzania
Sayings by Julius Nyerere
A poor man does not use money as a weapon. But even a poor man can refuse to sell his labour.
Capitalism is very dynamic; it is a fighting system. Each capitalist enterprise survives by successfully fighting other capitalist enterprises.
People cannot be developed; they can only develop themselves.
Independence means self-reliance.
We must work harder than our exploiters.
Socialism is not a religion. It is a system which can be justified on purely practical grounds.
It is not wealth that matters, but how it is used.
A man who is not a socialist in his youth has no heart; a man who is still a socialist in his old age has no head.
No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation.
We cannot be truly independent if we are economically dependent.
The purpose of development is to increase mankind's ability to control his own environment and to make his life better.
To say that a man is free, is to say that he has the power to determine his own destinies.
We have to build a society where people are not exploited by others.
The greatest enemy of freedom is poverty.
We cannot afford to be spectators in our own liberation.
The choice is between the good of the community and the good of the individual.
Our nation is a nation of peasants and workers.
Without unity, there is no future for Africa.
The people must be the masters of their own destiny.
Socialism is not a matter of dogma, but of living.