Track 2. Bob Marley & The Wailers – War

Bob Marley & The Wailers. "War." Rastaman Vibration. Island Records, 12 June 2001.



Gandhi was surrounded his entire life by a rich diversity of people. He understood at a young age that there was much competition within these climates. Gandhi once reflected about his experience as a young student, saying, “There was a sort of rivalry going on between the Sanskrit and the Persian teachers” (Arturk, 127). His schooling also led him to study in England as well as British colonized South Africa where Gandhi experienced a sort of tipping point in his personal experience with cultural discrimination. Gandhi was “tossed” from a train for refusing to sit in “third class” despite having a first-class ticket (Kupfer, 1). It was then when Ghandi held fast to a new philosophy, as Marley sang in his song War, “Until the philosophy which hold one race / Superior and another inferior / Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned / Everywhere is war, me say war.”