Haile Selassie Quotes

Our Christian civilization will have to Christianize itself in a hurry. It will have to dedicate itself to the proposition that men are men before they are Englishmen, businessmen, workingmen, or Americans, and that all men are brothers.... This proposition, always popular on Sundays, requires the subordination of Americanism to Humanity.

You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran.

People need to spread love towards strangers. We all bleed the same blood and we are all part of a global community now.

Christ tears away the wall of partition, the self-love, the dividing prejudice of nationality, and teaches a love for all the human family.

I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn't matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us.

Now that we have the revolutionary spirit, we must not lose sight of the brotherhood awareness. Temper the revolutionary spirit. Culture identification is needed, but we must not let it lead us to hatred. We can become intoxicated and lose sight of our real goal to fully participate in the political system of the United States.

Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.

America is made of different races and different religions, but we're all co-travelers on the spaceship Earth and must respect and help each other along the way.

In Minneapolis, we believe in connection, not alienation. We believe in compassion, not indifference. We believe in love, but we are not timid.

I think that racism is ugly and so unfair, and I believe that we all need one another.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

We and our fellow men of all countries must realize that we share this wonderful, beautiful, salubrious earth as brothers and that there never will be anywhere else to go.

My campaign confirmed my belief that although there are bigots in America, whose hateful rhetoric seizes the media's attention, the vast majority of people do not harbor such prejudice.

As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone.