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.
HAILE SELASSIENo one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.
More Haile Selassie Quotes
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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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Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess.
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We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.
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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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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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Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
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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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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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Feel the needs of others more than your own.
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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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Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
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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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We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
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Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless.
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