We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.
Haile SelassieLet us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess
Haile SelassieMany discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.
Haile SelassieThe preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.
Haile SelassieThe 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
Haile Selassie