Haile Selassie Quotes
We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.
Selassie, Haile. "Address to the United Nations General Assembly." 4 Oct. 1963, United Nations Headquarters, New York.
This quotation became the mantra of the MIT Media Lab's Professor Hugh Herr and others whose total efforts are spend inventing things for the future.
She was arguing with David Gergen about the impact of the ‘first’ female, religious or ethnic candidate for a particular office as making history. Crowley maintains that usually nothing really fundamentally changes as a result of the ‘first’ history making event.
The Pashto people reside in Afghanistan and environs. They are the largest tribe in Afghanistan.
Haile Selassie I was the Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. Prior to his coronation, he had been the Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia from 1916. He is a defining figure in modern Ethiopian history. He was a member of the Solomonic dynasty who traced his lineage to Emperor Menelik I.
