There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.
HAILE SELASSIEKnowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.
More Haile Selassie Quotes
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Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
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We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.
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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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Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
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You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.
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Everyone, in all walks of life, regardless of his professional occupation should feel concerned and play an active role to solve such problems which affect mankind.
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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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Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.
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Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?
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The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding.
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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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An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
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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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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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