A Little Inspiration from Bob

The other morning Bob Marley's song "War" came on our iPod and even though I know it by heart and have heard it probably 1,000 times - it still moves me.  The lyrics are almost, word for word, a speech by Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie I made before the UN National Assembly in 1963.  I think the words are powerful, incredible, and ring so very true today.  Read them first, then listen to my man Bob sing it.  Amazing.

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior

And another Inferior

Is finally

And permanently

Discredited

And abandoned 

-Everywhere is war -

Me say war.

That until there no longer

First class and second class citizens of any nation

Until the color of a man's skin

Is of no more significance than the color of his eyes 

-Me say war.

That until the basic human rights

Are equally guaranteed to all,

Without regard to race 

-Dis a war.

That until that day

The dream of lasting peace,

World citizenship

Rule of international morality

Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued,

But never attained 

-Now everywhere is war - war.

And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes

that hold our brothers in Angola,In Mozambique,South Africa

Sub-human bondage

Have been toppled,Utterly destroyed 

-Well, everywhere is war -Me say war.

War in the east,War in the west,War up north,War down south 

-War - War -

Rumors of war.

And until that day,The African continent

Will not know peace,

We Africans will fight - we find it necessary -And we know we shall win

As we are confidentIn the victory

Of good over evil 

Good over evil, yeah!

Good over evil 

Good over evil, yeah!

Good over evil 

Good over evil, yeah!

Listen to Bob sing it here.  God, what I would have done to be able to see this man live. LOVE.

Love,

Brittany & Scott