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Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?

Haile Selassie

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
Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.
HAILE SELASSIE

Dominate Leadership People Rule World
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
Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
HAILE SELASSIE

Myself Organization Success World
A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility.
HAILE SELASSIE

Art Expectation Grace Material Sacrifice Tree
We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
HAILE SELASSIE

Escape Fall Freedom Ignorance Live Man Rain World
We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
HAILE SELASSIE

Progress Slow Success
There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.
HAILE SELASSIE

Acceptance Authority Deep Escape Power Responsibility
Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an ‘is,’ it is a ‘becoming.’
HAILE SELASSIE

Judgement Peace Problem
You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.
HAILE SELASSIE

Leadership Learning Remember
The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.
HAILE SELASSIE

Nation Opinion Unity World
There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of our people merits as much attention as its spiritual welfare
HAILE SELASSIE

Attention Body Men People Sound Spiritual
Spiritual power is the eternal guide, in this life and the life after, for man ranks supreme among all creatures. Led forward by spiritual power, man can reach the summit destined for him by the Great Creator.
HAILE SELASSIE

Destiny Greatness Guide Life Man Power Spiritual
Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.
HAILE SELASSIE

Accomplishment Courage Goal
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
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Alone Himself Knowledge Learning Worth

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