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.
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Speech to the UN Security Council in Africa Hall, Addis Ababa, 28 January 1972, Security Council official records, S/PV,1627. Multiple sources misattribute the quote to a separate speech Selassie made to the UN on 4 October 1963.