There's a little drum riff, the brass section comes in on the off-beat, then there's Bob Marley's unmistakable voice . . .
Until the philosophy which hold one race superior . . .
And another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned . . .
Everywhere is war . . .
It's Marley's song War, a powerful anthem for equality, and the lyrics are mostly the words delivered by Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie to the United Nations General Assembly in June 1963.
The emperor had ended his list of unacceptable inequalities across Africa with the words "the African continent will not know peace", but Marley introduced the word "war".
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