Zack de la Rocha Quotes on Power

16 quotes

  1. [at Rock the Bells, San Francisco, California, 2007] 'Every once in a while, people forget who really has power in this country. People forget who really holds power here, and you look at them helicopters coming in over the White House lawn and all the press gathered up, and all their security, and all their banks, and all their punk ass police, and you want to believe that our last powers there, up top at the center putting forth position in the world, you want to think it and you want to consider them to have the decency to look out for your best interests everyday, but for me as a mexicano I know I do not answer, that should never be the case, its never been their military, their propoganda, their machine, their punk ass police, their presidents, their politicians, its you that has power, its us that has power, and here, and here a few years ago on that day in March as Bush was taking this country to war for a lie, I stood with you here in San Francisco as you took this whole fucking city over, and I was with you, and right now the whole world is watching us, we can be the greatest generation, we can take facism out of power in the United States and if you don't think thats what it is thats exactly it. We're going to take a lot of sacrifice, a lot of jail time, maybe even a little bit of death, but I'm sure dropping a co-op onto these rich white crackers that don't know shit about the world we know cause rich in this world can go in and have nothing amount to them anymore. Wake up!''

  2. 'Fear is your only God.'

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

  4. 'Some of those that burn crosses, are the same that hold office'

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

  6. 'No escape from the mass mind rape. Play it again jack and then rewind the tape'

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

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

  9. 'You know they murdered X and tried to blame it on Islam. He turned the power to the have-nots. And then came the shot'

  10. 'The structure is set ya never change it with a ballot pull'

  11. 'Aw, power to tha people, 'Cause the bosses right to live is mine to die'

  12. 'Made the masses of mastadons a path to trample the fascists on.'

  13. 'Every official that comes in, cripples us, leaves us maimed, silent and tame, and with our flesh and bones he builds his homes.'

  14. 'You see the powerful got nervous, cause he refused to be their servant, and he spit truths, that burnt like black churches [from Voice of the Voiceless, a tribute song to Mumia Abu Jamal]'

  15. 'Hoover, he was a body remover

  16. 'Ignorance has taken over, we gotta take the power back!'

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