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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.”
Source: Appeal to the League of Nations, Geneva, 30 June 1936 (delivered in Amharic)
Context His appeal to the League of Nations after Italy invaded Ethiopia using poison gas; Italian journalists jeered as he began, and the League failed to act.
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“Our Armageddon is past. Africa has been reborn as a free continent and Africans have been reborn as free men.”
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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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“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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