Erection date: 27/4/1983
Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned everywhere is war.
H.I.M. Haile Selassie
Bob Marley
The quotation is from an address by Haile Selassie to the United Nations on the 4th of October 1963. It was used by Bob Marley in his song 'War'.
Site: Maygrove Peace Park (8 memorials)
NW6, Maygrove Road, Maygrove Peace Park
The park was built on former railway sidings and opened on 27 April 1983, to coincide with the 38th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. It contains a cherry tree, which commemorates the one that continued to bloom after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
The (non-memorial, as far as we can tell) sculpture sitting on the boulder is called Untitled (Listening) (1983-4), and was sculpted by Antony Gormley, so he was probably the model as well. The inscribed stones are laid into the tarmac path near the sculpture.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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