Haile Selassie Quote

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.

Cited as from an address in Addis Ababa (1963) in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988) edited by James B. Simpson ISBN 0395430852