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.
HAILE SELASSIEEveryone, 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.
HAILE SELASSIEImagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
HAILE SELASSIEObserve 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.
HAILE SELASSIEThis world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
HAILE SELASSIEThe United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.
HAILE SELASSIEMan cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.
HAILE SELASSIEIt is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
HAILE SELASSIEAs is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’
HAILE SELASSIEA man who says “I have learned enough and will learn no further” should be considered as knowing nothing at all.
HAILE SELASSIEThe Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
HAILE SELASSIELeadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.
HAILE SELASSIEDemocracy, 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.
HAILE SELASSIEOne cannot deny that in former times man’s life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man’s life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.
HAILE SELASSIEKnowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.
HAILE SELASSIEThe true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.
HAILE SELASSIEToday I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
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