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One cannot deny that in former times man’s life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man’s life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.

Haile Selassie

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

Believe Goal Ourselves
Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.
HAILE SELASSIE

Alone Man Food Intellectual Soul
He [the Almighty] taught us that all human beings are equal regardless of sex, national origin and tribe. And He also taught us all who seek Him shall find Him.
HAILE SELASSIE

Equality God Himself Human Seek Sex
Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier? All goes on as before, as always. Illusions, illusions.
HAILE SELASSIE

Change Democracy Kindess Loyalty Man Word
You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.
HAILE SELASSIE

Leadership Learning Remember
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Act Action Different Evil History Justice Possible Silence Success Voice
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
HAILE SELASSIE

Expression Men Nation
We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
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Progress Slow Success
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
As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’
HAILE SELASSIE

Development Effort Greatness Simple Start Success
A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation’s development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated.
HAILE SELASSIE

Development Growth Intelligence Opinion Politics Progress
Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.
HAILE SELASSIE

Freedom Justice Live Long Men Remember
Feel the needs of others more than your own.
HAILE SELASSIE

Empathy Feeling Need
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
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
HAILE SELASSIE

Animal Compassion Easy
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Country Death Freedom Men Peace War

One cannot deny that in former times man’s life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man’s life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.

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One cannot deny that in former times man’s life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man’s life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.

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