Zack de la Rocha
Zack de la Rocha
Zacharias Manuel "Zack" de la Rochais an American musician, poet, rapper, and activist best known as the vocalist and lyricist of rap metal band Rage Against the Machine from 1991–2000, and after the band's reunion in 2007 until their last show in 2011. He left Rage Against the Machine in October 2000, and embarked on a low-key solo career. With former Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore, de la Rocha also co-founded One Day as a Lion in 2008...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth12 January 1970
CountryUnited States of America
It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?
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.
Is all the world jails and churches?
The classroom's the last room to get the truth.
'Cause I'll rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system I was born to rage against 'em
Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.
One God, one market, one truth, one consumer
Fools follow rules when the set commands you.
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.