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Zack de la Rocha

Zacharias Manuel de la Rocha (born January 12, 1970) is an American musician. He is best known as the vocalist and lyricist of rap metal/funk metal band Rage Against the Machine. He left Rage Against the Machine in October 2000 and embarked on a solo career, although the band reunited from 2007 to 2011. With former Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore, de la Rocha also co-founded One Day as a Lion in 2008.

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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.

Animal, Animals, Eating, Free, Growing Up, Pain

Is all the world jails and churches?

Church, Churches, Jail, Jails, World

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

Crosses, Force, Forces, Rage Against The Machine, Same

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.

Artist, Foreigners, Law, Make, Mexico, Military

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.

Give, Giving, Sacrifice, Struggle, Struggles, Throughout

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

Classroom, Lasts, Room, Rooms, Truth

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?

Controls, Future, Past, Present, Rage Against The Machine

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.

Animal, Death, Free, Involve, Pain, Thinking

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.

Headed, Iraq, Proof, Reason, United States, War

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

Against, Ems, Hip Hop, Mic, Rage, Rip

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

Book, Books, Burn, Ems, Gotta, Rage Against The Machine

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.

Dream, Dreams, Enemies, Ignorance, Submission, Teacher

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.

Administration, Hung, Law, Tried, War, White

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

Better Place, Place, Rage Against The Machine, Sometime, Start, Time

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

Bliss, Humorous, Ignorance, Profound, Smile