Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
HAILE SELASSIEThere is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.
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Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.
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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 must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.
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Feel the needs of others more than your own.
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No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.
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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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It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.
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Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?
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Leadership does not mean domination.
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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.
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Unity should be the cornerstone of relations.
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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.
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Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
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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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