Bob Marley had agreed to perform at a peace concert in December, 1976. On December 3 1976, armed men stormed Bob Marley’s Kingston mansion, and shot the singer, his wife and his manager. Marley escaped with minor wounds; his wife Rita and manager Don Taylor were seriously injured, but survived. Despite this assassination attempt he still went on stage and performed this song at the concert. In his own words he said, "The people who are trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off. Why should I?" Right now it feels like the people who are trying to make this world a more hateful place definitely didn't take a day off from voting. But what is more important is that the people who believe in love, peace, unity, freedom of religion, equality for men and women of all races, and economic and social stability not based on fear and division, but on mutual respect and appreciation for a diverse nation of immigrants, also not take a day off. Instead in the coming weeks, months and years, we must work harder to defeat and reverse the global spread of hate that threatens even the most stable of democracies.
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