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In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.

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Immortal Technique
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 31
Musician
Rapper
Singer
City of the Kings
Felipe Andres Coronel
Felipe Coronel
Regret
Sacrifice
Music
World
Hardship
Medicine
Laughter

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The average ordinary person, in the worst slums of America, someone who might even hate the law and disagree with the government, they would do something about that [abandoned child]. But in Afghanistan, people hardly have the means to take care of themselves, let alone a random child on the street.
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The 'king of hip hop' is always the poster child for capitalism, no matter who it is.
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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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It doesn't matter what race you are. It doesn't matter what religion you are. I always tell people: If you want to be a part of hip-hop, you just need to have a heart. You need to have the courage to tell the truth.
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Hip-hop is about the human condition it's about people's lives.
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Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal.
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When we look at these types of things it echoes to lessons we haven't learned from the past. We still don't see Rome as a negative thing we glorify the Roman Empire. It was a fascist state under the control of an incredibly authoritarian militant pre-emptive striking genocidal regime.
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A pretty face can capture my attention but only a beautiful mind can hold it.
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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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I Freestyle my Destiny, It's not written in Pages.
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I think that learning to read between the lines of traditional media is one way to stay informed, and also realizing that eventually you're going to have to cross-reference all sorts of different information coming from different sources.
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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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Devils used to be God's angels that fell from the top. There is no diversity cos we're burnin in the melting pot.
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The mind of a child is where the Revolution begins.
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You can’t stop a revolution from breathin’, so to beat ‘em they offer people the illusion of freedom.
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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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Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.
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I would love for [Jesus] to come back because I would love for him to face what is happening and to really have some sort of perspective. In that same respect, I'm sure that Prophet Muhammad would be disgusted by what some people use his name to justify.
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Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the future.
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I've had some confrontations after I got out of prison and I'm proud of the fact that I dealt with them differently.
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