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Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.

Haile Selassie

Unity should be the cornerstone of relations.
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Relationship Unity
We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.
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Acceptance Existence Peace Togetherness
It is both the duty and responsibility of the world’s fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many.
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Help Kindness Poor Responsibility World
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
Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.
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Accomplishment Courage Goal
We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
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Job Material Tools
A good leader maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.
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Emotion Goodness Leadership Thinking
It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.
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Important Material Spiritual
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
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
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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Equality God Himself Human Seek Sex
There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.
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Acceptance Authority Deep Escape Power Responsibility
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
Feel the needs of others more than your own.
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Empathy Feeling Need
If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.
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Book Experience Learning Life Mindset Yourself
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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Foundation Home Rain Strong
An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
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Establishment Identity Ourselves Past Personality
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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Development Effort Greatness Simple Start Success
As man’s faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life.
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Development Himself Life Man
Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life.
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Development Education Intellectual Life Man
The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.
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Different Greatness Hold On Inspirational Leadership Purpose True
The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding.
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Mental Oneself Reward
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.
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Country Death Freedom Men Peace War
Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
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Myself Organization Success World
Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
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Grace Imagination Perseverance Success Togetherness Yourself
If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty God that he would bless the results for us
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Blessing Faith Ourselves Result Togetherness Unity
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

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