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The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding.

Haile Selassie

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
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
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
Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess.
HAILE SELASSIE

Believe Goal Ourselves
We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.
HAILE SELASSIE

Acceptance Existence Peace Togetherness
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Destroy God Government History Judgement People Remember Strong Weakness
An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
HAILE SELASSIE

Establishment Identity Ourselves Past Personality
Unity should be the cornerstone of relations.
HAILE SELASSIE

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

Myself Organization Success World
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
Feel the needs of others more than your own.
HAILE SELASSIE

Empathy Feeling Need
Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
HAILE SELASSIE

God Man Myself Religious
Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
HAILE SELASSIE

Demand Effort See Unity
As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’
HAILE SELASSIE

Development Effort Greatness Simple Start Success
Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.
HAILE SELASSIE

Creation Destroy Doubt Knowledge Power
There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.
HAILE SELASSIE

Acceptance Authority Deep Escape Power Responsibility

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