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Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.

Haile Selassie

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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Equality Eyes Freedom Human Peace Talk
No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.
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Faith God Human Judgement Oneself Way
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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Destroy God Government History Judgement People Remember Strong Weakness
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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Development Growth Intelligence Opinion Politics Progress
Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
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Grace Imagination Perseverance Success Togetherness Yourself
Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.
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Creation Destroy Doubt Knowledge Power
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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Destiny Greatness Guide Life Man Power Spiritual
Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.
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Dominate Leadership People Rule World
Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
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God Man Myself Religious
History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.
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Difference Goal History Ourselves Path Strength Teaching Unity
Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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Demand Effort See Unity
Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess.
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Believe Goal Ourselves
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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Alone Himself Knowledge Learning Worth
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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Judgement Peace Problem
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.
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Escape Fall Freedom Ignorance Live Man Rain World
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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Education Fools Learning Man Myself

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