Haile Selassie Quotes - Page 2

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• Place principle above all else.

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  Principles

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

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  Mean, People, Wish

  "Speeches Delivered on Various Occasions, May 1957-December 1959", (p. 138), 1960.

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• Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.

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  Men, Alone Man, Soul

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• There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

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  Responsibility, Authority, Accepting

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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.

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  Loyalty, Spiritual, Community

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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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  Responsibility, World, Helping

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• It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

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  War, Men, Enemy

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• A good leader... maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.

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  Emotional, Thinking, Leader

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• Leadership does not mean domination.

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  Mean, Doe, Domination

  "Speeches Delivered on Various Occasions, May 1957-December 1959", (p. 138), 1960.

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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.

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  Men, Differences, Race

  Haile Selassie's Address at Haile Selassie I University (Addis Ababa University) honoring Indian President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, October 13, 1965.

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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.

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  Strong, Rain, Believe

  "My Life and Ethiopia's Progress : The Autobiography of Emperor Haile Sellassie" by Haile Selassie, translated by Edward Ullendorff, 1976.

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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.

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  Leader, Inspire, Torches

  "Speeches Delivered on Various Occasions, May 1957-December 1959", (p. 138), 1960.

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• It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

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  Animal, Compassion, Pet

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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.

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  Responsibility, Fighting, Civilization

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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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  Children, Father, Achieve

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• An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

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  Past, Personality, Identity

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• Unity should be the cornerstone of relations

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  Unity, Should, Relation

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• He [the Almighty] taught us that all human beings are equal regardless of sex, national origin and tribe. And He also taught us all who seek Him shall find Him.

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  Sex, Taught Us, Tribes

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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

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  Errors, Political, Growth

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• The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding

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  Sweat, Fruit, Labour

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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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  Teaching, Action, Divine

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• It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.

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  Spiritual, Important, Advancement

  The Voice of Ethiopia, April 5, 1948.

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• We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.

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  Progress, Made, Preserves

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• 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.'

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  Events, Becoming, Problem

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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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.

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  Mistake, Men, Ideas

  "Transform Your World Through the Powers of Your Mind" by Jawara D. King, (p. 295), 2009.

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