Zack de la Rocha Quotes

If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

A little rebellion is a good thing.

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.

If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don’t Dull The Blade

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

If this be treason, make the most of it!