The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
HAILE SELASSIENo one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.
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An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
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The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.
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Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily
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Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?
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If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.
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A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility.
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We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.
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Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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Feel the needs of others more than your own.
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I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.
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He [the Almighty] taught us that all human beings are equal regardless of sex, national origin and tribe. And He also taught us all who seek Him shall find Him.
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Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.
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