Jomo Kenyatta quotes
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“Our children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future.”
-- Jomo KenyattaSource : Narendra Modi’s banquet speech during his visit to Kenya, www.pmindia.gov.in. July 11, 2016.
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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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“I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.”
-- Jomo KenyattaSource : Post-election statement in 1964. "Ancestral Passions: The leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings". Book by Virginia Morell. Chapter 19, 1995.
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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.”
-- Jomo KenyattaSource : 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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“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.”
-- Jomo KenyattaSource : "English as a Global Language" David Crystal, Cambridge University Press, (p. 124), 2003.
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“Don't be fooled into turning to Communism looking for food.”
-- Jomo KenyattaSource : "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.”
-- Jomo KenyattaSource : "The Fate of Africa" by Martin Meredith, (p. 266), 1964.
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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.”
-- Jomo KenyattaSource : Jomo Kenyatta's Speech in Nyeri, Kenya, July 26, 1952.
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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.”
-- Jomo KenyattaSource : George Delf, Jomo Kenyatta (1961). “Jomo Kenyatta: Towards the Truth about "The Light of Kenya"”, London : Gollancz
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