Zack de la Rocha Quotes
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Your anger is a gift.
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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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Something must be done,about vengeance, a badge and a gun.So rip the mic rip the state rip the system,I was born to rage against them.
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If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.
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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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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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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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Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where performing is no longer a neutral act. They have created an environment where they can convert the normal commercial interaction between artists and their fans into the means to apply this racist law.
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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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Fools follow rules when the set commands you.
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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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I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.
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Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.
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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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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.
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They made you think that, what you need is what they sellin',Made you think that buying is rebelling.
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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?
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Shackle your mind when you bend on the cross,When ignorance reigns life is lost.
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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