Any Who May Wish To

A Good Leader... Maintains A Balance Between Emotional Drive And Sound Thinking.

Like Twentieth-century Iran, The Remnant Of The Persian Empire, Ethiopia Under Haile Selassie Attempted To Preserve The Absolutist State Throught An Accommodation With Modernizing Forces In His Own Terms Without Completely Subduing Traditionalists. This Was Not A Strategy Of Haile Selassie's Own Choosing. Instead, He Was Overtaken By Events And Forced To Deal With Contradictions That Were From The Very Beginning Too Formidable To Be Managed In The Long Term.

I Have Heard Of That Idea [i.e., Of Haile Selassie Being The Reincarnation Of Jesus Christ]. I Also Met Certain Rastafarians. I Told Them Clearly That I Am A Man, That I Am Mortal, And That...they Should Never Make A Mistake In Assuming Or Pretending That The Human Being Is Emanated From A Deity.

The Preservation Of Peace And The Guaranteeing Of Man's Basic Freedoms And Rights Require Courage And Eternal Vigilance: Courage To Speak And Act - And If Necessary, To Suffer And Die - For Truth And Justice; Eternal Vigilance, That The Least Transgression Of International Morality Shall Not Go Undetected And Unremedied.

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.