Quotes by Haile Selassie
“History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals.”— Haile Selassie
“A man who says 'I have learned enough and will learn no further' should be considered as knowing nothing at all.”— Haile Selassie
“The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance.”— Haile Selassie
“Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I lead my people through example.”— Haile Selassie
“That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned... until that day, the dream of lasting peace... will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained.”— Haile Selassie
“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
“Imagination, originality and invention are not the sole prerogatives of any one race or nation.”— Haile Selassie
“Apart from the Kingdom of the Lord, there is not on this earth any nation that is superior to any other.”— Haile Selassie
“We all wish to live. We all wish to enjoy life. We are all possessed of a deep and abiding desire to live in peace and security, to attain happiness.”— 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