Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
HAILE SELASSIEIf 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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Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
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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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Feel the needs of others more than your own.
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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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We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
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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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A well organized education should not be one which prepares students for a good remuneration alone. It should be one that can help and guide them towards acquiring clear thinking, a fruitful mind, and an elevated spirit.
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It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.
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A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down.
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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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As man’s faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life.
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It is both the duty and responsibility of the world’s fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many.
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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
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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 is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.
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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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Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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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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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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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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Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.
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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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This 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.
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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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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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