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{{quote|"''We got to fight the Powers That Be!''"|'''[[Public Enemy]]''', "Fight The Power"}}
 
== Quotes about Protest Songs ==
{{quote|'''[[Satan]]''': ''Beyond these doors is an agony worse than all others... you will remain in here for eternity listening to... [opens door] WHINY PROTEST SONGS FROM THE SIXTIES!<br />
{{quote|One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.|Phil Ochs|in ''Broadside'' magazine (1962)}}
'''Singer''': ''Oh I hate the government<br />
 
More than you hate me<br />
{{quote|A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.|Phil Ochs|in the liner notes for ''The Broadside Tapes 1''}}
The government took my goldfish<br />
 
And unplugged my TV''<br />
{{quote|'''[[Satan]]''': ''Beyond these doors is an agony worse than all others... you will remain in here for eternity listening to... [opens door] WHINY PROTEST SONGS FROM THE SIXTIES!<br />
'''Warners''': [Scream]|''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'', "Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled"
'''Singer''': ''Oh I hate the government<br />
}}
''More than you hate me<br />
''The government took my goldfish<br />
''And unplugged my TV''<br />
'''Warners''': [Scream]|''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'', "Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled"}}
 
== Quotes from Protest Songs ==
{{quote|"''We got to fight the Powers That Be!''"|'''[[Public Enemy]]''', "Fight The Power"}}
 
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