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You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.

Haile Selassie

Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.
HAILE SELASSIE

Creation Destroy Doubt Knowledge Power
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
Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.
HAILE SELASSIE

Accomplishment Courage Goal
Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess.
HAILE SELASSIE

Believe Goal Ourselves
Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
HAILE SELASSIE

Demand Effort See Unity
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Different Greatness Hold On Inspirational Leadership Purpose True
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Establishment Identity Ourselves Past Personality
We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
HAILE SELASSIE

Job Material Tools
Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?
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Democracy Politics Word
Leadership does not mean domination.
HAILE SELASSIE

Dominate Leadership One Liner
Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.
HAILE SELASSIE

Men Moments Opportunity Ourselves Power Preparation Strength
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Difference Goal History Ourselves Path Strength Teaching Unity
We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
HAILE SELASSIE

Progress Slow Success
Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
HAILE SELASSIE

Myself Organization Success World
You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.
HAILE SELASSIE

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You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.

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