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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

Haile Selassie

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Haile Selassie
Age: 83 †
Born: 1892
Born: July 23
Died: 1975
Died: August 26
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Haile Selassie
Ras Tafari
Tafari Makonnen
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The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.
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Feel the needs of others more than your own.
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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.
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Place principle above all else.
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We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
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Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier? All goes on as before, as always. Illusions, illusions.
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The love shown in Christ by our God to mankind should constrain all of us who are followers and disciples of Christ to do all in our power to see to it that the Message of Salvation is carried to those of our fellows for whom Christ Our Saviour was sacrificed but who have not had the benefit of hearing the good news.
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The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace
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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.
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Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
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A good leader... maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.
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As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life
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