Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
HAILE SELASSIEMan cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.
More Haile Selassie Quotes
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Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
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Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily
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An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
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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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The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.
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Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?
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There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.
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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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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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We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
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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 demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.
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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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