Unity should be the cornerstone of relations.
HAILE SELASSIELeadership does not mean domination.
More Haile Selassie Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.
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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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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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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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Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
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Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
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We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.
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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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