Quotes from Julius Nyerere

I am an individual and I respect my own individuality. But I am an individual and a member of a community. And a community has conditions. All the commandments - Thou Shalt Not - are about community

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

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

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

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