Words matter. These are the best Haile Selassie Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
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.
Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an ‘is,’ it is a ‘becoming.’
We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?
Africa’s mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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.
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
Provision must be made for the extension of speedy and effective assistance when any African State is threatened with military aggression. We cannot rely solely on international morality.
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.
Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
We have before us the examples of the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. We must remember how long these required to achieve their union. When a solid foundation is laid, if the mason is able and his materials good, a strong house can be built.
