“It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.”

—  Haile Selassie

Statement after his speech before the League of Nations (30 June 1936), as quoted in " "The Lion is Freed" in TIME magazine (8 September 1975) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,917777,00.html?iid=chix-sphere

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Emperor of Ethiopia 1892–1975

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