Haile Selassie
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"Haile Selassie" , born "Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael", was Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1930 and Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He was a member of the Solomonic dynasty.

At the League of Nations in 1936, the Emperor condemned the use of chemical weapons by Italy against his people during the Second Italo–Ethiopian War. His internationalist views led to Ethiopia's becoming a charter member of the United Nations, and his political thought and experience in promoting multilateralism and collective security have proved seminal and enduring. His suppression of rebellions among the landed aristocracy (the Ethiopian aristocratic and court titles/mesafint), which consistently opposed his reforms, as well as what some critics perceived to be Ethiopia's failure to modernize rapidly enough, earned him criticism among some contemporaries and historians. His regime was also criticized by human rights groups, such as Human Rights Watch, as autocratic and illiberal.

Among the Rastafari movement, whose followers are estimated at between 600,000 and 1,000,000,

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We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?

Outside the kingdom of the Lord thee is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

It is much easier to show compassions to animals. They are never wicked.

Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.

Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.