Did you know?

In 1963, Emperor Haile Selassie made a speech in front of the League of Nations, which is now known as the United Nations, and Bob Marley made into a song. If Bob Marley did not make it into this song, his words may not be as well known.



War - Bob Marley

What life has taught me
I would like to share with
Those who want to learn

Until the philosophy which hold one race
Superior and another inferior
Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned
Everywhere is war

That until there are 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

That until the basic human rights are equally
Guaranteed to all, without regard to race

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

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

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 confident in the victory
Of Good over Evil