Haile Selassie Quotes - Page 4

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• One cannot deny that in former times man's life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man's life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.

  Haile Selassie

  Men, Civilization, Progress

  Interview with editor of "The Voice of Ethiopia", April 5, 1948.

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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.

  Haile Selassie

  Real, Issues, Peaceful

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.

  Haile Selassie

  Organization, World, Today

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• Like twentieth-century Iran, the remnant of the Persian Empire, Ethiopia under Haile Selassie attempted to preserve the absolutist state throught an accommodation with modernizing forces in his own terms without completely subduing traditionalists. This was not a strategy of Haile Selassie's own choosing. Instead, he was overtaken by events and forced to deal with contradictions that were from the very beginning too formidable to be managed in the long term.

  Haile Selassie

  Iran, Long, Events

  "Revolutionary Ethiopia : From Empire to People's Republi" by Edmond J. Keller, Indiana University Press, (p. 67), 1991.

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• The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.

  Haile Selassie

  Men, Aspiration, United Nations

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?

  Haile Selassie

  Democracy, Republic

  Interview with Oriana Fallaci in "The Chicago Tribune", June 24, 1973.

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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.

  Haile Selassie

  World, May, Opinion

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen the road to exile in order that our people will not be exterminated and in order to consecrate ourselves wholly and in peace to the preservation of our empire's independence.

  Haile Selassie

  War, Order, People

  "Days of Emperor and Clown : The Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936" by James Dugan and Laurence Davis Lafore, (p. 204), 1973.

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