An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
HAILE SELASSIEWe must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
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Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
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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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The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding.
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Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.
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Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.
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Place principle above all else.
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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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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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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 make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
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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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Leadership does not mean domination.
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You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.
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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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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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