Can you feel the love?

"We must act while we can, while the occasion exists, to exert those legitimate pressures available to us lest time run out and resort be had to less happy means. The great nations of the world would do well to remember that, in the modern age even their own fate is not wholly in their own hands. Peace requires the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse? The stakes are identical for all of us. Life or death. We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease."


Haile Selassie the 1st

We will fight, if necessary...

"On the question of racial discrimination, the Addis Ababa conference taught, to those who will learn this further lesson, that until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned; until there are no longer first class and second class citizens of any nature; that until the colour of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes; that until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race. That until that day the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued but never attained. And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola in Mozambique and South Africa in subhuman bondage have been toppled and destroyed; until bigotry and prejudice and malicious and inhuman self interest have been replaced by understanding and tolerance and good will; until Africans stand up and speak as free human beings equal in the eyes of all men as they are in the eyes of heaven, until that day the African continent will not know peace. We Africans will fight if necessary.  And we know that we shall will as we are confident in the victory of good over evil."


HIM Haile Selassie I