Quotes & Sayings About Emperor Haile Selassie

The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity ... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace — Haile Selassie

I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor. — Jack Kingston

The same arts that did gain
A power, must it maintain. — Andrew Marvell

Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power. — Mengistu Haile Mariam