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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

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Zack de la Rocha
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 12
Human Rights Activist
Lyricist
Musician
Peace Activist
Poet
Rapper
Singer-Songwriter
Long Beach
California
Zacharias Manuel de la Rocha
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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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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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Fools follow rules when the set commands ya...
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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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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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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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One God, one market, one truth, one consumer.
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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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When ignorance reigns, life is lost...
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Is all the world jails and churches?
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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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Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses...
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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?
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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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Your anger is a gift.
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They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em.
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If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face...
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