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 SELASSIEYou must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.
More Haile Selassie Quotes
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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Feel the needs of others more than your own.
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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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An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
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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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Unity should be the cornerstone of relations.
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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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No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.
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