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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
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Haile Selassie
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Tafari Makonnen
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In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.
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No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.
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Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
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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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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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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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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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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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We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
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Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.
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