We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
HAILE SELASSIEToday I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
More Haile Selassie Quotes
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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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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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Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
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The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding.
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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 much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.
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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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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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Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.
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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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Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?
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Observe 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.
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Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.
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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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