KemetLeadsTheir words
“Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.”
Source: “Get Up, Stand Up”, written with Peter Tosh, on the album Burnin' (1973)
Context Written with Peter Tosh after Marley saw poverty while touring Haiti, the song opened the Wailers' Burnin', their second album for Island Records.
Pick the card background
More words from Bob Marley
“Possession make you rich? I don't have that type of richness. My richness is life, forever.”
Bob Marley Jamaica♥ 0
“Africa is the cornerstone to the realisation of people's unity.”
Bob Marley Jamaica♥ 0
“If the fight is spiritual, then fight spiritual, because everywhere the fight goes on.”
Bob Marley Jamaica♥ 0
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.”
Bob Marley Jamaica♥ 0
More words from Culture & Ideas
“Emotion is African, as reason is Hellenic.”
Léopold Sédar Senghor Senegal♥ 0
“With my music I create a change. I see it. So really I am using my music as a weapon.”
Fela Kuti Nigeria♥ 0
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
Desmond Tutu South Africa♥ 0
Membership
Become a member. It's free.
Members get our weekly briefing on the leaders and forces shaping Africa and its diaspora, and unlock every game on the Play page.
Already a member? Log in