Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
Haile SelassieLeadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.
Haile SelassieIf a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
Haile SelassieThe United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.
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