Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
Bob MarleyRead
Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that politics permeates all aspects of life, yet one can choose to focus on the personal and natural elements instead.
Bob Marley's quote emphasizes the idea that although politics influences every facet of society, an individual's true fulfillment comes from engaging with life and nature rather than the complexities of political systems. Marley expresses a desire to distance himself from the entanglements of politics, suggesting that a deeper connection with life's simple truths and the natural world is more valuable.
In practice
In a discussion about the relevance of politics in daily life.
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright
Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys donβt exist, but thereβs always one guy that is perfect for you.
I'n'I nah come to fight flesh and blood, But spiritual wickedness in 'igh and low places. So while they fight you down, Stand firm and give Jah thanks and praises. 'Cos I'n'I no expect to be justified by the laws of men - by the laws of men. Oh, true they have found me guilty, But through - through Jah proved my innocency.
Life is one big road with lots of signs, _x000D_ So when you riding through the ruts, _x000D_ Don't you complicate your mind _x000D_ Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy _x000D_ Don't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.
If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.
Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither and die only to form an unbreakable chain which held me fast to this world yet made me forever its exile, a specter with a beating heart?
Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.
I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.
Jesus was not a white man; He was not a black man. He came from that part of the world that touches Africa and Asia and Europe. Christianity is not a white man's religion and don't let anybody ever tell you that it's white or black. Christ belongs to all people; He belongs to the whole world.
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