Quotes by Bob Marley

"Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that."

"None but ourselves can free our minds."

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"

"If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already."

"Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for."

"Tell the children the truth."

"You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you're supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer."

"When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself."

"Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere."

"If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now."

"My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever."

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."

"My future is righteousness."

"In this bright future you can't forget your past."

"Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?"

"Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny."

"Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all."

"The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down."

"My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die."

"When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open."

"The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow."

"Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold."

"Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow."

"Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!"

"I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool."

"Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction."

"I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side."

"God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can."

"Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight."

"The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively."