Quotes by Haile Selassie - Page 2

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 / Political Figure
Men
People
Spiritual
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Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
Haile Selassie / Political Figure
Divided
Doors
Intervention
Lines
Pitfalls
Above
Consequences
Among
Avoid
Open
Foreign
Harmful
Potentially
Tribal
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Provision must be made for the extension of speedy and effective assistance when any African State is threatened with military aggression. We cannot rely solely on international morality.
Haile Selassie / Political Figure
Aggression
Assistance
International
Military
Morality
Provision
Rely
Threatened
African
Effective
Extension
Solely
Speedy
We Cannot
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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 / Political Figure
May
Profit
Wish
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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 / Political Figure
Men
War
Country
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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 / Political Figure
Issues
Peaceful
Real
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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 / Political Figure
Men
Cherish
Confrontation
Issues
Long
Property
Security
Brought
Essential
Illusions
Interests
Issue
Stark
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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 / Political Figure
Men
Guides
Spiritual
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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 / Political Figure
Men
Democracy
People
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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 / Political Figure
Men
Harness
Resources
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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 / Political Figure
Mind
Spirit
Thinking
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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 / Political Figure
Strength
History
Brotherhood
Common
Differences
Goal
Path
Strive
Unity
Overcome
African
True
Combined
Goals
Quest
Submerge
Teaches
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
Haile Selassie / Political Figure
Confined
Contamination
Interference
Nations
Quarrels
Africa
Time World Must
Among
Dispute
From Time To Time
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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.
Haile Selassie / Political Figure
Catastrophe
Disease
Fall
Hunger
Ignorance
Nuclear
Poverty
Rain
Wish
Burdens
Deadly
Escape
Freed
Seek
Overtake
Shall
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We have before us the examples of the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. We must remember how long these required to achieve their union. When a solid foundation is laid, if the mason is able and his materials good, a strong house can be built.
Haile Selassie / Political Figure
Able
Achieve
Foundation
House
Materials
Remember
Solid Foundation
Strong
Before
Examples
Laid
Solid
Mason
Union
Required
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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 / Political Figure
Religion
History
Evil
Inaction
Indifference
Justice
Made
Procrastination
Should
Should Have
Silence
Triumph
Voice
Most
Acted
Who
Been
Those
Possible
Could
Mattered
Throughout
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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 / Political Figure
Government
Impunity
Judgment
Nations
People
Remember
Strong
Weak
Appeal
Destroy
Finds
Hour
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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 / Political Figure
Errors
Growth
Political
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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 / Political Figure
Men
Attributes
Born
Faults
World
Africa
African
Area
Less
Created
Talents
Deficiencies
Earlier
Geographical
Globe
Later
Virtues
Possess
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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 / Political Figure
Opportunity
Men
Mean
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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 / Political Figure
Men
Civilization
Progress
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There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions - they lead to defeat
Haile Selassie / Political Figure
Decision
Moving
People
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The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.
Haile Selassie / Political Figure
Inspire
Leader
Torches
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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 / Political Figure
Courage
Men
Allegiance
Bigger
Community
Courageous
Greater
Members
Nations
Outlook
Overcoming
Owing
Petty
Prejudice
Race
Spirit
Ultimate
Within
More
Become
Been
New
Human
Fellow
Fellow Men
Must
Larger
Than
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In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.
Haile Selassie / Political Figure
Men
Differences
Race
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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 / Political Figure
Civilization
Comparison
Continents
Independent
Indigenous
Patterns
Social
Years
Years Ago
Africa
African
Free
Centuries
Civilizations
Cultures
Economically
Suffer
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Truly
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We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen the road to exile in order that our people will not be exterminated and in order to consecrate ourselves wholly and in peace to the preservation of our empire's independence.
Haile Selassie / Political Figure
War
Order
People
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The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace
Haile Selassie / Political Figure
Greed
People
Royal Palaces
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I have heard of that idea [i.e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ]. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal, and that...they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that the human being is emanated from a deity.
Haile Selassie / Political Figure
Men
Ideas
Mistake
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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 / Political Figure
Religion
Men
Assurance
Charter
Disputes
Force
Human Rights
International
Nations
Race
Rights
Safeguarding
Security
Settlement
Sex
States
United Nations
Aspirations
Expresses
Freedoms
Fundamental
Noblest
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The love shown in Christ by our God to mankind should constrain all of us who are followers and disciples of Christ to do all in our power to see to it that the Message of Salvation is carried to those of our fellows for whom Christ Our Saviour was sacrificed but who have not had the benefit of hearing the good news.
Haile Selassie / Political Figure
Hearing
Messages
News
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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 / Political Figure
Courage
Men
Truth
Eternal
Eternal Vigilance
International
Justice
Morality
Preservation
Rights
Speak
Transgression
Vigilance
Die
Act
Basic
Freedoms
Guaranteeing
Least
Necessary
Require
Shall
Suffer
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Africa shares with Asia a common background of colonialism, of exploitation, of discrimination, of oppression. At Bandung, African and Asian States dedicated themselves to the liberation of their two continents from foreign domination and affirmed the right of all nations to develop in their own way, free of any external interference.
Haile Selassie / Political Figure
Asia
Colonialism
Common
Continents
Dedicated
Discrimination
Domination
Exploitation
Interference
Liberation
Nations
Oppression
Africa
African
All Nations
Background
External
Develop
Foreign
Shares
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Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it shall be a curse to you and to succeeding generations. You must set yourselves us as examples of determination and hard work. Plan your time and use both your physical and mental powers purposefully and productively.
Haile Selassie / Political Figure
Determination
Fall
Hard Work
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The commentators of 1963 speak, in discussing Africa, of the Monrovia States, the Brazzaville Group, the Casablanca Powers, of these and many more. Let us put an end to these terms. What we require is a single African organisation through which Africa's single voice may be heard, within which Africa's problems may be studied and resolved.
Haile Selassie / Political Figure
Discussing
Heard
Organisation
Studied
Africa
African
Casablanca
Group
Let Us
Powers
Terms
Require
Resolved
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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. Some people have written the story of my life representing as truth what in fact derives from ignorance, error or envy; but they cannot shake the truth from its place, even if they attempt to make others believe it.
Haile Selassie / Political Figure
Believe
Rain
Strong
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That which man dreams of and to Which he aspires, unless fulfilled in his own lifetime, can produce no actual satisfaction to him. It will be self deceiving and a waste of time to advocate dialogue with those who are not ready to listen, because it is obvious that the freedom of millions is not a commodity subject to bargaining. It is better to die free than to live as slaves.
Haile Selassie / Political Figure
Dream
Men
Self
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In the mystic traditions of the different religions we have a remarkable unity of spirit. Whatever religion they may profess, they are spiritual kinsmen. While the different religions in their historic forms bind us to limited groups and militate against the development of loyalty to the world community, the mystics have already stood for the fellowship of humanity in harmony with the spirit of the mystics of ages gone by.
Haile Selassie / Political Figure
Loyalty
Community
Humanity
Spiritual
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Do the people of the world not yet realize that by fighting on until the bitter end I am not only performing my sacred duty to my people, but standing guard in the last citadel of collective security? Are they too blind to see that I have my responsibilities to the whole of humanity to face? I must still hold on until my tardy allies appear. And if they never come, then I say prophetically and without bitterness: The West will perish.
Haile Selassie / Political Figure
Civilization
Fighting
Responsibility
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Like twentieth-century Iran, the remnant of the Persian Empire, Ethiopia under Haile Selassie attempted to preserve the absolutist state throught an accommodation with modernizing forces in his own terms without completely subduing traditionalists. This was not a strategy of Haile Selassie's own choosing. Instead, he was overtaken by events and forced to deal with contradictions that were from the very beginning too formidable to be managed in the long term.
Haile Selassie / Political Figure
Events
Iran
Long
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It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher and more lasting values will show more marked progress while the evil in him recedes into the background. Knowing that material and spiritual progress are essential to man, we must ceaselessly work for the equal attainment of both. Only then shall we be able to acquire that absolute inner calm so necessary to our well-being.
Haile Selassie / Political Figure
Journey
Men
Spiritual
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That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained.
Haile Selassie / Political Figure
Dream
Eye
Philosophy
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