Julius Nyerere

"Democracy is not a bottle of Coca-Cola which you can import. Democracy should develop according to that particular country. I never went to a country, saw many parties and assumed that it is democrati…"

"Yes, we have one party here. But so does America. Except, with typical extravagance, they have two of them!"

"Those who receive this privilege therefore, have a duty to repay the sacrifice which others have made. They are like the man who has been given all the food available in a starving village in order th…"

"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…"

"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 w…"

"Ingels: We Africans do not need to be "converted" to socialism, any more than we need "lessons in democracy". These two concepts have their roots in our own past - in the traditional society which gav…"