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 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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Leadership does not mean domination.
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Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily
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Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.
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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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We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.
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Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
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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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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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A well organized education should not be one which prepares students for a good remuneration alone. It should be one that can help and guide them towards acquiring clear thinking, a fruitful mind, and an elevated spirit.
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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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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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The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.
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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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We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
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