Haile Selassie

We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?

If 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.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

The commentators of 1963 speak, in discussing Africa, of the Monrovia States, the Brazzaville Group, the Casablanca Powers, of these and many more. Let us put an end to these terms. What we require is a single African organisation through which Africa’s single voice may be heard, within which Africa’s problems may be studied and resolved.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

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.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

Kings are the slaves of history.

History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

He who does not understand history is doomed to repeat it.

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

Americans Never Quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We Make History.

How incredible our ancestors were. The first astrophysicists, scientists, physicians, mathematicians, architects, creators of so much of the world as we know it. It’s a blessing to know what cloth you’re cut from!

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.