Place principle above all else.
HAILE SELASSIEThis world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding.
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Leadership does not mean domination.
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Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.
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Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess.
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As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’
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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
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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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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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There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.
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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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A man who says “I have learned enough and will learn no further” should be considered as knowing nothing at all.
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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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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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Feel the needs of others more than your own.
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We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
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