The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.
HAILE SELASSIEMahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.
More Haile Selassie Quotes
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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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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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You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.
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There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions – they lead to defeat.
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It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.
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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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Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?
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If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty God that he would bless the results for us
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Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess.
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We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
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Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
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We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
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Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.
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As man’s faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life.
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There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.
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Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.
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Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
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There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.
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Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
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Everyone, in all walks of life, regardless of his professional occupation should feel concerned and play an active role to solve such problems which affect mankind.
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Spiritual power is the eternal guide, in this life and the life after, for man ranks supreme among all creatures. Led forward by spiritual power, man can reach the summit destined for him by the Great Creator.
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Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless.
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No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.
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A man who says “I have learned enough and will learn no further” should be considered as knowing nothing at all.
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Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier? All goes on as before, as always. Illusions, illusions.
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