"Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if……" — Julius Nyerere
"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."
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Julius Nyerere
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17 Quotes by Julius Nyerere
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The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live
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The African is not 'Communistic' in his thinking; he is -- if I may coin an expression - 'communitary'.
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We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both…
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If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed…
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In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained…
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If real development is to take place, the people have to be involved.
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We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny,…
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When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were…
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Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.
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Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.
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There is no time to waste. We must either unite now or perish.
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Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by…
— Marcus Aurelius
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
— Sri Aurobindo
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
— Theodor Adorno
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them…
— Allan Bloom
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything…
— Victor Borge
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings…
— Lakhdar Brahimi
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
— Robert Browning
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
— William Ellery Channing
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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
— James Allen
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To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
— James Allen
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