Parents For Rock And Rap, founded in 1987 by Mary Morello in the United States is an anti-censorship campaign which focuses on campaigning for the importance of free speech in popular music. For the work that Mary Morello put in to this, she won a Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award in 1996. The campaign mainly focused on opposition to the Parents Music Resource Center.
Mary Morello is also the mother of guitar player Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, The Nightwatchman, and Street Sweeper Social Club.
Famous quotes containing the words parents, rock and/or rap:
“The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them—thus preserving the system.”
—Quentin Crewe (20th century)
“Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.”
—Frank Zappa (1940–1994)
“The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.”
—Johnnetta Betsch Cole (b. 1936)