Haile Selassie Quotes:
We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?
Haile Selassie
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
HAILE SELASSIE
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
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
HAILE SELASSIE
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.
Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
HAILE SELASSIE
An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
HAILE SELASSIE
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
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
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
Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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