Haile selassie quotes sayings
1. "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."
2. "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."
3. "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."
4. "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."
5. "It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked."
6. "We must work to bring about the day when humanity will truly be one family and all men will know they are brothers."
7. "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."
8. "It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it."
9. "The African is not a proletarian in the world of science and art. He has not produced a Goethe, a Kant, a Newton, a Beethoven, a Dante, a Michelangelo, a Shakespeare, an or a Wagner. The worlds of his forefathers were not ruled by the pen and the clock, by science and rationalism."
10. "It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked."
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