Zack de la Rocha Quotes

• It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?

  Zack de la Rocha

  Rage Against The Machine, Better Place

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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.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Dream, Teacher, Ignorance

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• If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face...

  Zack de la Rocha

  Humorous, Ignorance, Profound

  "Song: Settle for nothing (Rage Against The Machine)". November 3, 1992.

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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.

  Zack de la Rocha

  People, Justice, Mind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Country, Brother, Taken

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• When ignorance reigns, life is lost...

  Zack de la Rocha

  Ignorance, Reign, Life Is

  "Song: Township Rebellion (Rage Against the Machine)". November 3, 1992.

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• Your anger is a gift.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The classroom's the last room to get the truth.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Lasts, Rooms, Classroom

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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 Rocha

  Past, Rage Against The Machine

  "Song: Testify (Album:The Battle of Los Angeles)". 2000.

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• 'Cause I'll rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system
  I was born to rage against 'em

  Zack de la Rocha

  Rip, Hip Hop, Causes

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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.

  Zack de la Rocha

  War, Law, White

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• Fools follow rules when the set commands ya...

  Zack de la Rocha

  Fool, Command

  "Song: Bullet In The Head (Rage Against The Machine)". December 29, 1992.

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• Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses...

  Zack de la Rocha

  Rage Against The Machine, Crosses, Force

  "Song: Killing In The Name (Rage Against The Machine)". November 2, 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.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Pain, Animal, Thinking

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• One God, one market, one truth, one consumer.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Consumers

  "Song: Down Rodeo (Album: Evil Empire)". 1996.

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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.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Military, Artist, Government

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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.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Growing Up, Pain, Animal

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• Is all the world jails and churches?

  Zack de la Rocha

  Jail, Church, World

  "Song: Vietnow (Evil Empire)". October 1997.

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• They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Book, Ems, Rage Against The Machine

  "Song: Bulls on Parade (Album: Evil Empire)". 1996.

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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.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Struggle, Sacrifice, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Zack de la Rocha

  Men, People, Grandparent

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• Without just cause of reason, without legal or moral justification, and without a thread of proof that Iraq directly threatens the security of the United States, the Bush administration has headed to war.

  Zack de la Rocha

  War, Iraq, United States

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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.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Taken, Government, Cities

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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