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As recorded in filmed interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsfYAJ3dQyY&feature=player_embedded (1979) with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand <br class="br">The people who are trying to make this world worse aren't taking a day off. How can I?

“Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

As quoted in Rolling Stone's The Immortals (2004) "Bob"

“And what has been hidden from the wise and the prudent been revealed in the mouth of the toddlers.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Forever Loving Jah
Uprising (1979)

“We JAH people can make it work.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Work
Uprising (1979)

“Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way
In this bright future you can't forget your past
So dry your tears I say
No woman, no cry
No woman, no cry
Little darlin' don't shed no tears
No woman, no cry”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Disputed, No Woman, No Cry, from the album Natty Dread (1974)

“They say: only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive!”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Could You Be Loved
Uprising (1979)

“In the high tide or low tide, I'm gonna be your friend… I'm gonna be your friend!”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Song High Tide Or Low Tide

“Never expect God to do for you what you don't do to others.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Redemption Song; the song was inspired by a speech by Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia in October 1937, published in his Black Man magazine, Vol. 3, no. 10 (July 1938), pp. 7-11:
We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind.
Uprising (1979)

“The beauty of love.
The love of beauty.
The greener you are, the wiser you will be.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“a pot a cook but the food na kno”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“They will always tell you that you can't do what you want to do, but you can do what you want to do. You just have to believe in yourself. The system is to bring you down, but you can rise up.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“In high seas or in low seas,
I'm gonna be your friend…
I'm gonna be your friend.
In high tide or in low tide,
I'll be by your side…
I'll be by your side.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Song High Tide Or Low Tide

“So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician