Jomo Kenyatta Quotes

• I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.

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  Jomo Kenyatta

  Past   Looks   Forget  

  Post-election statement in 1964. "Ancestral Passions: The leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings". Book by Virginia Morell. Chapter 19, 1995.

  1987

• Our children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future.

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  Jomo Kenyatta

  Children   Hero   Past  

  Narendra Modi’s banquet speech during his visit to Kenya, www.pmindia.gov.in. July 11, 2016.

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• Unity cannot be taken for granted.

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  Jomo Kenyatta

  Taken   Taken For Granted   Unity  

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• Don't be fooled into turning to Communism looking for food.

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  Jomo Kenyatta

  Communism   Fooled  

  "The Africans" by David Lamb, (p. 61), 1982.

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• Some people try deliberately to exploit the colonial hangover for their own purpose, to serve an external force. To us, Communism is as bad as imperialism.

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  Jomo Kenyatta

  Hangover   People   Trying  

  "The Fate of Africa" by Martin Meredith, (p. 266), 1964.

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• To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living, and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines.

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  Jomo Kenyatta

  Fighting   Shrines   Youth  

  George Delf, Jomo Kenyatta (1961). “Jomo Kenyatta: Towards the Truth about "The Light of Kenya"”, London : Gollancz

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• You and I must work together to develop our country, to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve or provide all day-to-day essentials.

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  Jomo Kenyatta

  Country   Children   Doctors  

  Jomo Kenyatta (1965). “Harambee!: The Prime Minister of Kenya's Speeches, 1963-1964 : from the Attainment of Internal Self Government to the Threshold of the Kenya Republic”, Nairobi : Oxford University Press, 1964 [i.e. 1965]

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• God said this is our land, land in which we flourish as people... we want our cattle to get fat on our land so that our children grow up in prosperity; and we do not want the fat removed to feed others.

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  Jomo Kenyatta

  Children   Growing Up   Land  

  Jomo Kenyatta's Speech in Nyeri, Kenya, July 26, 1952.

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• The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.

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  Jomo Kenyatta

  Independent   Government   Language  

  "English as a Global Language" David Crystal, Cambridge University Press, (p. 124), 2003.

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• Where there has been racial hatred, it must be ended. Where there has been tribal animosity, it will be finished. Let us not dwell upon the bitterness of the past. I would rather look to the future, to the good new Kenya, not to the bad old days. If we can create this sense of national direction and identity, we shall have gone a long way to solving our economic problems.

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  Jomo Kenyatta

  Past   Long   Hatred  

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