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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.

Haile Selassie

Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
HAILE SELASSIE

Grace Imagination Perseverance Success Togetherness Yourself
Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
HAILE SELASSIE

God Man Myself Religious
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
Place principle above all else.
HAILE SELASSIE

Character One Liner Place Principle
You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.
HAILE SELASSIE

Leadership Learning Remember
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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Animal Compassion Easy
Leadership does not mean domination.
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Dominate Leadership One Liner
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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Act Action Different Evil History Justice Possible Silence Success Voice
There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of our people merits as much attention as its spiritual welfare
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Attention Body Men People Sound Spiritual
As man’s faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life.
HAILE SELASSIE

Development Himself Life Man
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
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Art Expectation Grace Material Sacrifice Tree
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 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
Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier? All goes on as before, as always. Illusions, illusions.
HAILE SELASSIE

Change Democracy Kindess Loyalty Man Word
Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
HAILE SELASSIE

Myself Organization Success World

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