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You can’t stop a revolution from breathin’, so to beat ‘em they offer people the illusion of freedom.
Immortal Technique
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Immortal Technique
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 31
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City of the Kings
Felipe Andres Coronel
Felipe Coronel
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As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue.
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The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system it's the system that will eventually change you.
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Using some economic issues to make one group of people, regardless of race or religion, the scapegoat for all the problems of the country is just the stupidest, and yet, the most creative propaganda scheme that you can come up with.
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I'm not trying to sell pipe dreams to people. I'm not giving them some fake utopia. I'm not telling them it's easy. If it was easy, everyone would do it. But you don't fight the fights you can win, you fight the fights that need fighting. That's the most important part.
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I have a strong army I keep with me and we don't go out there looking for problems. A lot of people have this perception... but I don't have a superiority complex about me because I'm from New York or because I'm Peruvian/Black. I think some people get caught up in that stuff.
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I'll leave you fulla clips like the moon blockin' the sun.
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Changing the course of destiny, so I'm strapped with weaponry cause the government don't give a f-k about protecting me.
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You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!
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I'm a business man and I'm a grown man. I spend a lot of time thinking about how to restructure my life, support my family with this music... I don't have time to deal with the repercussions of breaking somebody's jaw or breaking their nose.
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The mind of a child is where the Revolution begins.
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Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.
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Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control.
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Your fans can't just pop in whenever they want. I'm not gonna allow someone to just drop over my house whenever they want like, Hey what's up? I bought your album so what's for dinner?
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Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children
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Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.
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Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.
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I think that when you look at history and when you look at these facts that shape nations and shape countries and give us present examples of how we're supposed to live, we find more and more often that we're not paying attention to what's actually happening.
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People are educated into the fact that as a people we stand a better chance of knowing how to work the law if we know the history of the law and the history of our people's relationship with it.
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Plastic metaphors and carbon copy similes that aren't going to do anything for anybody and it doesn't showcase creativity it showcases the fact that the soul of the music has been compromised to control the industry.
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I'll throw ya gang-sign up, and then I'll spit on my hand.
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