Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
Haile SelassieRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Strong governments that oppress weaker peoples must be held accountable, promoting justice and intervention.
This quote by Haile Selassie emphasizes the moral obligation of the international community to intervene when a powerful nation abuses its strength against a weaker one. It highlights the importance of seeking justice through established global institutions, like the League of Nations, and appeals to a higher sense of duty to uphold human rights and dignity, reminding us that both God and history will recognize the judgment rendered in such cases.
Themes
GovernmentJusticeOppressionInterventionHistoryMorality
In practice
Example use cases
During a speech at a human rights conference, one could use this quote to advocate for the protection of vulnerable populations.
More from Haile Selassie
All quotes →It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.
Haile SelassieRead
No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.
Haile SelassieRead
Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.
Haile SelassieRead
Place principle above all else.
Haile SelassieRead
We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.
Haile SelassieRead
Similar quotes
Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.
OvidRead
We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true.
Daniel KahnemanRead
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
Alphonse De LamartineRead
We have to pay attention to developing well, in the correct manner, the human aspects also in the professions, in respect of other persons, in being concerned for others, which is the best way of being concerned for ourselves.
Pope Benedict XviRead
Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored
Bob DylanRead
Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?
Aldo LeopoldRead