Travels of the Emperor: Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1961

Collective security for surety, ye-ah!
Don’t forget your history, know your destiny”

Bob Marley, ‘Rat Race’

We got to realize we are one people,
Or there will never be no love at all.”

Peter Tosh, ‘One Foundation’

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Emperor Haile Selassie visits US President John F. Kennedy, October 1963

Until the philosophy that holds one race superior and another inferior Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is War.”
These lyrics, from the Bob Marley song ‘War’, were originally found in an English translation of the speech Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia delivered to the United Nations in New York in October 1963.

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