We Have Finished The Job. What Shall

There Is No Safer Anchorage For Our Learning, Our Lives, And Our Public Actions Than That Provided By Divine Teachings.

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.

Education Develops The Intellect; And The Intellect Distinguishes Man From Other Creatures. It Is Education That Enables Man To Harness Nature And Utilize Her Resources For The Well-being And Improvement Of His Life

It Is Important That Spiritual Advancement Must Keep Pace With Material Advancement. When This Comes To Be Realized Man's Journey Toward Higher And More Lasting Values Will Show More Marked Progress While The Evil In Him Recedes Into The Background. Knowing That Material And Spiritual Progress Are Essential To Man, We Must Ceaselessly Work For The Equal Attainment Of Both. Only Then Shall We Be Able To Acquire That Absolute Inner Calm So Necessary To Our Well-being.

Do The People Of The World Not Yet Realize That By Fighting On Until The Bitter End I Am Not Only Performing My Sacred Duty To My People, But Standing Guard In The Last Citadel Of Collective Security? Are They Too Blind To See That I Have My Responsibilities To The Whole Of Humanity To Face? I Must Still Hold On Until My Tardy Allies Appear. And If They Never Come, Then I Say Prophetically And Without Bitterness: The West Will Perish.