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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
Context: All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?
“Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!”
Get Up, Stand Up, Burnin (1973), cowritten with Peter Tosh.
Song lyrics
Source: Bob Marley - Legend
“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds.”
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:
Uprising (1979)
Variant: None but ourselves can free our minds.
Context: 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.
“Possession make you rich? I don't have that type of richness. My richness is Life, forever.”
Interview for the Australian TV show 60 Minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LnxGoglJck
“Judge not, before you judge yourself.
Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment.”
Song lyrics, Judge Not (single, 1961)
“Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.”
Zimbabwe, from the album Survival (1979)
Song lyrics
“Won't you help to sing,
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever had,
Redemption songs.”
Redemption Song
Uprising (1979)