20 Haile Selassie Quotes for You to Enjoy

Haile Selassie

Ethiopian Statesman

Born: Jul 23, 1892

Died: Aug 27, 1975

Africa African History Men Peace World

Related authors: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Benjamin Disraeli Colin Powell Edmund Burke Lucius Annaeus Seneca Marcus Tullius Cicero Nelson Mandela Winston Churchill

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

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

Strength History Overcome Goals Path Differences Unity Our Strive Brotherhood True Combined Quest Submerge Common African Us Teaches

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 Men Become Community Petty Our Members Must Spirit Allegiance More Outlook New Fellow Overcoming Courageous Fellow Men Greater Within Ultimate Been Than Owing Human Nations Bigger Race Prejudice Larger

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

Pet Compassion Animals Wicked Easier Never Much Show

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

Truth Man Justice Peace Rights Courage Speak Morality Shall Freedoms Least Go Die Eternal Transgression Eternal Vigilance Require Act Vigilance International Suffer Basic Necessary Guaranteeing Preservation

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

Tribal Doors Consequences Harmful Intervention Our Ourselves Must Above Potentially Divided Open Foreign Lines Pitfalls Avoid Among

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

Peace Problem Events Day-To-Day Judgments Becoming Product Multitude

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

Free Own Other Those Independent Thousands Thousands Of Years Indigenous Civilizations Economically Continents Were Years Years Ago Truly Cultures Politically Africa African Which Patterns Social Centuries Comparison Suffer

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

Personality Past Awareness Our Identity Essential African Establishment

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

World Men Other Deficiencies Virtues Later Faults Possess Born More Area Talents Globe Attributes Geographical Than Any Human Africa African Created Less Earlier

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

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

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

Religion Man Peace Rights Language Sex Human Rights United Nations Assurance Settlement States Distinction Security Charter Noblest Between Freedoms Safeguarding Force Without Human Nations Race Aspirations International International Peace Expresses United Fundamental Disputes

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

Property Men Long Control Too Security Brought About Over Cherish Issue Essential Confrontation Interests Many Lived Illusions Stark

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

Oppression Free Colonialism Own Exploitation Way Background States Liberation All Nations Develop Shares Foreign Continents Discrimination Domination Any Common Nations Africa African Asia Asian Themselves Interference Dedicated Right External Two

The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces. Haile Selassie

Government Practice Hazardous Arms Forces Intended Regards Use Transport Railway

We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools? Haile Selassie

Job Finished Tools Shall

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

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