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Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

Haile Selassie

Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an ‘is,’ it is a ‘becoming.’
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Judgement Peace Problem
Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.
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Freedom Justice Live Long Men Remember
We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
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Job Material Tools
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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Men Moments Opportunity Ourselves Power Preparation Strength
One 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.
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Civilization Comfortable Greatness Improvement Life Men Oneself Progress Science Time
Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.
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Accomplishment Courage Goal
Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
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Myself Organization Success World
As man’s faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life.
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Development Himself Life Man
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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Animal Compassion Easy
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
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Expression Men Nation
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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Destroy God Government History Judgement People Remember Strong Weakness
We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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Escape Fall Freedom Ignorance Live Man Rain World
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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Difference Goal History Ourselves Path Strength Teaching Unity
A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation’s development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated.
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Development Growth Intelligence Opinion Politics Progress
There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.
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Action Divine Ourselves Safety Teaching
Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.
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Dominate Leadership People Rule World

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