WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:29:38 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Haile Selassie – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Haile Selassie -- Address, UN General Assembly, Addis Ababa (4 Oct 1963) https://wist.info/haile-selassie/13441/ https://wist.info/haile-selassie/13441/#respond Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:19:50 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=13441 Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.


Haile Selassie I (1892-1975) Emperor of Ethiopia (1930-1974) [b. Tafari Makonnen]
Address, UN General Assembly, Addis Ababa (4 Oct 1963)

Opening address to a special session of the General Assembly, making him the first ruler to address both the League of Nations and the United Nations.

See E. Burke.

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