The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they can…

- Jomo Kenyatta

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

- Jomo Kenyatta

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

- Jomo Kenyatta

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 bitternes…

- Jomo Kenyatta

Unity cannot be taken for granted.

- Jomo Kenyatta

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 imperi…

- Jomo Kenyatta

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

- Jomo Kenyatta

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 prosperit…

- Jomo Kenyatta

To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the fi…

- Jomo Kenyatta