RATM covers

Here are some of my favorite lyrical quotes from Zach De La Rocha.

"And Orwells hell a terror era coming through, but this little brother's watching you too, watching you too." -Voice Of The Voiceless

"Cause and effect smell tha smoke and tha breeze. My panther my brother, we are at war until you're free." -Voice Of The Voiceless

"The teacher stands in front of the class, but the lesson plan he can't recall, and the students eyes don't perceive the lies bouncing off every fucking wall." -Take The Power Back

"Born with insight and a raised fist, a witness to the slit wrist. As we move into '92, still in a room without a view." -Know Your Enemy

"Why stand on a silent platform? fight the war, fuck the norm" -Township Rebellion "Something must be done, about vengeance, a badge and a gun. Cause I'll rip the mike, rip the stage, rip the system. I was born to rage against 'em." -Know Your Enemy

"Terror rains drenchin', quenchin' tha thirst of tha power dons, that five sided fist-a-gon." -Bulls On Parade

"Now i'm rollin' down Rodeo with a shotgun, these people ain't seen a brown skin man since their grandparents bought one" -Down Rodeo

"Way past the days of bombin MCs, sound off, Mumia guan be free. Who gottem yo check the federal file, all you pen devils know the trial was vile. Army of pigs try to silence my style, off em all out that box its my radio dial." -Guerrilla Radio

"To tha young r to tha e tha b, to tha e tha l, never give up, just live up. Fed upon America, We be spittin' it up, rippin it up, for an even amount in each cup." -Mic Check

"A thousand years you had the tools we should be takin 'em, fuck the G-ride, I want the machines that are makin' em." -Down Rodeo

"So called facts are fraud, they want us to allege and pledge and bow down to their God. Lost the culture, the culture lost, spun our minds and through time. Ignorance has taken over, yo, we gotta take the power back!" -Take The Power Back

"A world of violent rage, but it's one that I can recognise, having never seen the color of my father's eyes." -Settle For Nothing

"Not a silent one, but a defiant one, never a normal one, 'cause I'm the bastard son." -Fistful Of Steel

"What we don't know keeps tha contracts alive and movin', they don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em. While arms warehouses fill as quick as tha cells, rally round tha family, pocket full of shells." -Bulls On Parade

"It's set up like a deck of cards, they're sending us to early graves for all the diamonds, they'll use a pair of clubs to beat the spades." -Freedom

"These vultures rob everything, leave nothing but chains. Pick a point on the globe, yes tha picture's tha same." -Calm Like A Bomb

"Brotha, did ya forget your name, did ya lose it on the wall playin' tic tac toe, yo check the diagonal , three brothers gone, come on. Doesn't that make it three in a row?" -Freedom

"Anger is a gift" -Freedom

"The present curriculums, I put my fist in em'. Eurocentric, every last one of em'. See right through the red, white and blue disguise. With lecture, I puncture the structure of lies." -Take The Power Back

"Land lords and power whores, on my people they took turns. Dispute the suits I ignite and then watch em' burn." -Bombtrack

"The Rage is relentless, we need a movement with the quickness. You are the witness to change, and to counteract, we gotta take the power back" -Take The Power Back

"Fear is ya only god, on tha radio" -Vietnow

SPEECHES

Here's an intro to Bullet in the Head:

"This next song goes out to those who still believe that there is an american dream. And still believe that within that dream there is something called freedom. It is time to fucking wake up, and begin to truely think for ourselves, and find new sources of information... otherwise - things like what's happening in the persian gulf with continue. They will be able to make decisions for you, unless you fucking wake up, and take that vail of complacence from your eyes, and fucking begin to remove the bullet from your head."

Another view of Christmas, at the KROQ Acoustic X-mas show:

"When I say no more lies...I'm telling you that we're not hear to celebrate this lie that is Christmas. With images of Santa, this prosperous white man, bringing presents and good hope to the communities of our countries is a fat lie. And is one installed only to legitimize the falsehood which is white supremecy. So no more lies...no more lies..."

This one's from 02/02/93 in Stockholm at the Melody, before "Bullet In the Head":

"For hundreds of years America has sent people into the fuckin Middle East in the name of freedom, in the name of democracy and have murdered innocent women and children to rape, conquer and divide them of there resources. Today the situation still stands and people are still being murdered in the name of freedom. Wake up to your powers as an individual and speak out and act against fucking imperialistic actions like this."

Philadelphia, PA at the Electric Factory, Mumia Benefit

"Check it out, check it out. Apparently just before this concert, there was some friends of ours in an organization called "The Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal". And somebody that came out here to pass out some information were sweated for wearing this very t-shirt right here (Zack points to his shirt and it has a picture of Mumia in cuffs and it say's "Free Mumia Abu-Jamal" underneath it). Now apparently it wasn't one of the promoters, and it wasn't some security guard, and I'm not going to make any assumptions but we're not nieve enough to think that there aren't members of the intelligence community right here in this fucking crowd who wanna prevent you from understanding why Mumia Abu-Jamal should be free. So let this be a message to you mister whoever the fuck you are and whoever they think they are. You're not going to intimidate us, and your not going to intimidate anyone in here from becoming a part of the movement to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. Yes. So in the back over here there's a table setup, and any of you can go over there and pick up as much information as you want. You should really check that shit out. Please do."

Zack gets mad at the light guys again: "Eh yo light man. Cut these fuckin sprinkler lights and shit, this ain't no Alice in Wonderland."

Right before Vietnow: "For mister Bob Grant, you racist mother fucker. For the censors of Saturday Night Live. We gotta shut down the programs of Vietnow"


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