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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.

Haile Selassie

No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.
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Faith God Human Judgement Oneself Way
As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’
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Development Effort Greatness Simple Start Success
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
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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Courage Greatness Human Nation Race Spirit
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
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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Illusion Issues Live Men Myself Security
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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Change Democracy Kindess Loyalty Man Word
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
Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?
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Creation Ideas Myself People
The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding.
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Mental Oneself Reward
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
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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Destiny Greatness Guide Life Man Power Spiritual
Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
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Grace Imagination Perseverance Success Togetherness Yourself
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
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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Book Experience Learning Life Mindset Yourself
Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
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God Greatness History Judgement Nation Remember

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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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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