Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
HAILE SELASSIEThe Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
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Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.
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We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.
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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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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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There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.
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You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.
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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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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 purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility.
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Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
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Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.
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The 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.
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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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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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Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.
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