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Tai Solarin Quotes

1916–1994 Nigeria

Augustus Taiwo "Tai" Solarin (20 August 1916 – 27 July 1994) was a Nigerian educator and author. He established the Mayflower School, Ikenne, Ogun State in 1956.

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The greatest strands of affection are woven in adversity.

We gave Nigeria its first woman engineer.

Leadership means suffering. The leader who has no marks, indelible marks to show either on his physical body or in his mind, has never led.

I fight with an indomitable spirit, my back to the wall; defeat is for those who accept it.

I feel that today I am among the first six.

I only pity him. He is like any other person who practises juju or witchcraft—they are all one and the same as far as I am concerned.

Anyone who said that is a liar.

It is lamentable that Nigeria of today, instead of getting its children given education free, universal and compulsory, is further re-establishing private schools and thus taking us back decades from what should be actually happening in Nigeria.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tai Solarin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.