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Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.

Haile Selassie

Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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Demand Effort See Unity
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
Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life.
HAILE SELASSIE

Development Education Intellectual Life Man
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.
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Escape Fall Freedom Ignorance Live Man Rain World
Place principle above all else.
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Character One Liner Place Principle
Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.
HAILE SELASSIE

Force Institution Issues Nation Peace Reality
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
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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Alone Himself Knowledge Learning Worth
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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Destroy God Government History Judgement People Remember Strong Weakness
Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
HAILE SELASSIE

Grace Imagination Perseverance Success Togetherness Yourself
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
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.
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Act Action Different Evil History Justice Possible Silence Success Voice
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
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Attention Body Men People Sound Spiritual
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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Animal Compassion Easy
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Education Guide Help Mindset Preparation Spirit Thinking
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
A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down.
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Foundation Home Rain Strong
Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?
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Democracy Politics Word
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.
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Development Growth Intelligence Opinion Politics Progress
This 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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Born Creation Early Human Men Talent Virtue World
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Feeling Life Man Play Problem Role Walk
No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.
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Faith God Human Judgement Oneself Way
Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily
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Achievement Care Children Father Worth
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.
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Art Expectation Grace Material Sacrifice Tree
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.
HAILE SELASSIE

Illusion Issues Live Men Myself Security
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
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

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