“The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness.”

We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough.

Tanzania being among the highly indebted countries, I had to give sports the least prominence during my first term, while setting priorities in revitalising our economy.

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone – by trying to act it out.

There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us.

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.

To become a token woman – whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters – is to become something less than a man.

We are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King’s dream.

Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.

For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.