Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.
HAILE SELASSIEAn awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
More Haile Selassie Quotes
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Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.
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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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Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.
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Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
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A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility.
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Unity should be the cornerstone of relations.
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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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There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.
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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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Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.
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You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.
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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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Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.
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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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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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