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 SELASSIEThroughout 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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There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.
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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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Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
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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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Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily
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A man who says “I have learned enough and will learn no further” should be considered as knowing nothing at all.
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Feel the needs of others more than your own.
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Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?
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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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As man’s faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life.
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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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Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
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If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.
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It is both the duty and responsibility of the world’s fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many.
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