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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.

Haile Selassie

No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.
HAILE SELASSIE

Faith God Human Judgement Oneself Way
Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily
HAILE SELASSIE

Achievement Care Children Father Worth
We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
HAILE SELASSIE

Escape Fall Freedom Ignorance Live Man Rain World
The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.
HAILE SELASSIE

Nation Opinion Unity World
Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
HAILE SELASSIE

Myself Organization Success World
Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.
HAILE SELASSIE

Accomplishment Courage Goal
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Courage Greatness Human Nation Race Spirit
Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.
HAILE SELASSIE

Freedom Justice Live Long Men Remember
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Destiny Greatness Guide Life Man Power Spiritual
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Country Death Freedom Men Peace War
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Development Growth Intelligence Opinion Politics Progress
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 SELASSIE

Illusion Issues Live Men Myself Security
Unity should be the cornerstone of relations.
HAILE SELASSIE

Relationship Unity
The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding.
HAILE SELASSIE

Mental Oneself Reward
We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
HAILE SELASSIE

Job Material Tools
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.’
HAILE SELASSIE

Judgement Peace Problem

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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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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