Julius Nyerere

The greatest resource of Africa is not its minerals, but its people.

We must reject the mentality of beggars.

The struggle for human dignity is universal.

We must build a society where everyone has a place and a purpose.

The path to socialism is not an easy one, but it is the only path to true liberation.

The African people are capable of great things.

We must resist all forms of exploitation.

Our revolution is a revolution of the people, by the people, for the people.

The struggle for freedom is a struggle for justice.

We must never give up hope.

The future is in our hands.

I don't trust a man who wears a tie; it's like he's hiding something!

Frankly I find this anxiety about the health of Tanzania sometimes funny, sometimes irritating, and always odd.

I have read and re-read the Arusha Declaration and found nothing wrong with it except perhaps replacing a few commas here and there... it was clear for some of us that it would only be a mad man who would stand up and defend the Arusha Declaration.

The African is not 'Communistic' in his thinking; he is -- if I may coin an expression - 'communitary'.

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.

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.

You're not successful until your successor succeeds.

I was a schoolmaster by choice and a politician by accident.

It is one of those funny things in history that a state, a state represents nothing, you know, it's sometimes an accident of history. But once it is there, it has more power sometimes than religion, than philosophy, than all sorts of things...