Quote: 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 I]
Quote: Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment. [Haile Selassie I]
Quote: It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked. [Haile Selassie I]
Quote: 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 I]
Quote: Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment. [Haile Selassie I]
Quote: It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked. [Haile Selassie I]
Quote: Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ. [Haile Selassie I]
Quote: 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 I]
Quote: 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 I]
Quote: We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools? [Haile Selassie I]
Quote: An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans. [Haile Selassie I]
Quote: 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. [Haile Selassie I]
Quote: 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 I]
Quote: 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 Selassie I]
Quote: Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous. [Haile Selassie I]
Quote: 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 I]
Quote: The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied. [Haile Selassie I]
Quote: 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 I]
Quote: The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security. [Haile Selassie I]
Quote: Unity should be the cornerstone of relations [Haile Selassie I]
Quote: 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 I]
Quote: 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 I]
Quote: 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 I]
Quote: As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life [Haile Selassie I]
Quote: 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 I]