Zack de la Rocha quotes
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“One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.”
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“If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.”
-- Zack de la RochaSource : "Song: Settle for nothing (Rage Against The Machine)". November 3, 1992.
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“I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.”
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“A friend of ours said if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after WWII, that every single one of them, every last rich white one of them, from Truman on would be hung to death and shot. And this current administration is no exception. They should be hung and tried and shot as war criminals.”
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“When ignorance reigns, life is lost”
-- Zack de la RochaSource : "Song: Township Rebellion (Rage Against the Machine)". November 3, 1992.
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“It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?”
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“Who controls the past now controls the future Who controls the present now controls the past Who controls the past now controls the future Who controls the present now?”
-- Zack de la RochaSource : "Song: Testify (Album:The Battle of Los Angeles)". 2000.
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“Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams.”
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“There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.”
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“Is all the world jails and churches?”
-- Zack de la RochaSource : "Song: Vietnow (Evil Empire)". October 1997.
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“Your anger is a gift.”
-- Zack de la RochaSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States.”
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“I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.”
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“Inside me, I think that an animal goes through a lot of pain in the whole cycle of death in the slaughterhouse; just living to be killed. That whole situation is really messed up for animals, growing up in those little cooped-up pens. I just don't think its worth eating that animal. I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.”
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“'Cause I'll rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system I was born to rage against 'em”
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“They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.”
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“So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one”
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“The classroom's the last room to get the truth.”
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“Fools follow rules when the set commands you.”
-- Zack de la RochaSource : "Song: Bullet In The Head (Rage Against The Machine)". December 29, 1992.
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“They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em”
-- Zack de la RochaSource : "Song: Bulls on Parade (Album: Evil Empire)". 1996.
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“Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.”
-- Zack de la RochaSource : "Song: Killing In The Name (Rage Against The Machine)". November 2, 1992.
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“Brothers and sisters, our democracy has been hijacked. Brothers and sisters, all electoral freedoms in this country are over so long as it's controlled by corporations. Brothers and sisters, we are not going to allow these streets to be taken over by the Democrats or the Republicans. Because it's all of us who have built this city, and we can tear it down unless they give us what we need.”
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“One God, one market, one truth, one consumer”
-- Zack de la RochaSource : "Song: Down Rodeo (Album: Evil Empire)". 1996.
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