Bob Marley Few people throughout history had such a firm and yet docile impact on music and philosophy as Bob Marley. Bob Marley overcame prejudice, political repression, gangland warfare and the lack of a father figure in his adolescent life. He spread his beliefs and support of Rastafarianism across the globe with a docile yet infinitely effective technique - music. His music shared with the world a peaceful alternative to the oftentimes violent situations that …showed first 75 words of 2039 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2039 total…greater good. Had we not gone to war against Great Britain, America would have never have gained independence. I think that a lot of the violence that Marley was referring to, however, was the violence in the streets of Jamaica, between the two warring governmental factions of the PNP and the JLP. This violence was not necessary and I think this sort of urban warfare was a big contributing factor in Marley's conversion to Rastafarianism.