Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
Haile SelassieMany discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.
Haile SelassieAny who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless
Haile SelassieLike 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