Their words
“Our Armageddon is past. Africa has been reborn as a free continent and Africans have been reborn as free men.”
Source: Opening address at the founding summit of the Organisation of African Unity, Addis Ababa, 25 May 1963
Context Welcoming African heads of state to the founding OAU summit, the emperor contrasted the colonial era with the independence won by most of the continent.
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More words from Haile Selassie
“Our liberty is meaningless unless all Africans are free.”
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“It is no less important that we know whence we came. An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.”
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“Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others. The true leader is of a different sort.”
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“Apart from the Kingdom of the Lord there is not on this earth any nation that is superior to any other… God and history will remember your judgment.”
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“That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned… the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion.”
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“It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
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“Our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa.”
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“It's true, you cannot kill ideas. Ideas do not die.”
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