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Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.

Haile Selassie

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Haile Selassie
Age: 83 †
Born: 1892
Born: July 23
Died: 1975
Died: August 26
Political Figure
Politician
Haile Selassie
Ras Tafari
Tafari Makonnen
Long
Always
Mahatma
Men
Gandhi
Love
Remembered
Justice
Freedom
Free
Live

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Feel the needs of others more than your own.
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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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Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.
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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.
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Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
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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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It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.
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There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions - they lead to defeat
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I have heard of that idea [i.e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ]. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal, and that...they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that the human being is emanated from a deity.
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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
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We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
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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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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.
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A good leader... maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.
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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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You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.
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A man who says “I have learned enough and will learn no further” should be considered as knowing nothing at all.
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