“The outlook and attitudes
of Our people have undergone drastic changes during this year. The nation has
come to modernity and maturity. The people have been educated, not so much by
formal, classroom instruction, but as a consequence of an increasingly broad
and general exposure of life in the twentieth century and the world around
them, Ethiopia has awakened. Ethiopians now demand more for themselves than
their fathers possessed. They have acquired the desire to improve their lot and
that of their children. They are willing and anxious to change.
This is what we have labored
throughout Our life to accomplish: to bring our people to the point of
awareness of the demands of modern life, to arouse in them the ambition to
progress, to stimulate their latent desire for advancement and improvement.
This has now been
achieved, and with the natural resources with which Almighty God has endowed
our nation, the path to development has been cleared and it’s vistas lie before
us.”
H.I.M Emperor Haile Selassie I
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