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:
“I love you. I never told my parents that I loved them. ‘Course, they never told me that they loved me, either, which was fine with me. But I love you.”
—Paul D. Zimmerman, U.S. screenwriter, and Martin Scorsese. Masha (Sandra Bernhard)
“I’m headed for a land that’s far away
Beside the crystal fountains.
So come with me, we’ll go and see
The Big Rock Candy Mountains.”
—Unknown. The Big Rock Candy Mountains (l. 5–8)
“The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.”
—Johnnetta Betsch Cole (b. 1936)