“To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.”
Peter Tosh was the most militant member of the world’s greatest reggae band, The Wailers. A revolutionary, Tosh once told a 40,000-strong crowd at the famous One Love Peace Concert in 1978, that “Peace is the diploma you get in the cemetery, written on your tombstone: “Rest in Peace!”
Tosh’s was the victim of a treacherous murder; he was robbed and killed in his own home by an acquaintance on September 11, 1987. Here are eight more quotes from, the Reggae Legend.
“Without the truth, there is no consciousness.”
“You never miss the water til the well runs dry.”
“Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.”
“Are some flowers more beautiful than others? The garden is beautiful. Do I prefer brother over brother? Comparisons are part of this political world. Where there is one, there is no conflict. Where there is two or more, there is conflict. Two is the devil. Conflict begin with the devil. We count 0 to 1, then back to 0. It is a circle.”
“I am good. I live good. I think good. I don’t have to feel good to be good, I take my goodness wherever I go.”
“It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel.”
“You can get through everything and cast a laugh and sing. You can do anything that you want to.”
“The flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade.”
