"Memories of past injustice should not divert us from the more pressing business at hand. We must live in peace with our former colonisers, shunning recrimination and bitterness and forswearing the luxury of vengeance and retaliation, LEST THE ACID OF HATRED ERODE OUR SOULS AND POISON OUR HEARTS. LET US ACT AS BEFITS THE DIGNITY WHICH WE CLAIM FOR OURSELVES AS AFRICANS, proud of our own special qualities, distinctions, and abilities. Our efforts as free men must be to establish new relationships, devoid of any resentment and hostility, restored to our belief and faith in ourselves as individuals, dealing on a basis of equality with other equally free peoples." --Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (1963)
"I must say that BLACK AND WHITE, as forms of speech, and as a means of judging mankind, SHOULD BE ELIMINATED FROM HUMAN SOCIETY. Human beings are precisely the same whatever, colour, race, creed or national origin they may be." --Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (1963)
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A child defies the wisdom of the parent out of rebelliousness despite the fact that the parent knows best and is imparting His wisdom, not to stymie His child, but for His child's benefit. How long does it take to grow up and listen?
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