Written Texts

• Hadda be Playin' on the Jukebox - Allen Ginsberg
• Memory of the Dead (Land and Liberty) - Zack de la Rocha
• Message from Mumia Abu-Jamal
  
• Letter from Zack Concerning Chiapas
• Zack's Statement Regarding the Massacre of 45 people in Acteal.
• Zack's Statement Regarding the Controversy of the Mumia Abu-Jamal Benefit Concert

Speeches

• Intro to Bullet in the Head
• Zapatistas - in Bullet in the Head at Tibetan Freedom Concert
• Christmas, at the KROQ Acoustic X-mas show
• On Leonard Peltier, before Bombtrack
• 02/02/93 in Stockholm, before "Bullet In the Head"
• In Philadelphia, PA, during "Wake up"
• Before "Without a Face" from Live and Rare
• Philadelphia, PA 1995, Mumia Benefit
• 02/02/93 Stokholm at the Melody.

Other Things

• Regarding treatment of women, 1999 tour
• Response to FOP claims, 1999 tour
• Mary Morello introduces rage
• Respect the Stage
• Anger toward lightmen
• Right before Vietnow
• Police Intervention

Quotes

• "I've always been on a personal mission to save the guitar."
  
  - Tom Morello
  
  
• "We figured that since they weren't busy serving and protecting the community, which our tax dollars pay for, then they should at least be well fed.� So we sent them 300 Krispy Kreme donuts."
  
  - Tom Morello, on the 300 off-duty police officers that protested their show in Worcester, MA on November 30, 1999.
  
  
• "In my own way, I was a rebellious kid."
  
  - Tom Morello
  
  
• "I'm always excited about making music with Rage Against the Machine.� Honestly, I think we've just scratched the surface of what we can do creatively."
  
  - Tom Morello
  
  
• "I think we're way better than we've ever been, and there's no reason why the next record can't top even 'The Battle of Los Angeles'."
  
  - Tom Morello
  
  
• "That's part of the job!� There's a long, rich and savage history of dissidents in the United States being persecuted by law enforcement, so it's something we take for granted.� But the second that you find the police department and government agencies patting you on the back and telling you to 'keep up the good work', that's when you break up the band."
  
  - Tom Morello, on fearing for his safety because of his political� beliefs.
  
  
• "The music wouldn't exist without the politics.� When we're playing a show, if something clicks for any one kid in the audience - starting that change, that process of thinking for themselves - that's the most potent time Rage Against the Machine can have as a band."
  
  - Brad Wilk
  
  
• "As Zack would point out on stage, it's obvious that the Order weren't afraid of our band or our music.� They were afraid of our audience, that people might be listening.� That's why they tried to boycott Rage Against the Machine.� And their boycott was an abject failure."
  
  - Tom Morello, on the Fraternal Order of Police.
  
  
• "For the millennium [New Year's Eve], you really have a choice to make. You either have to be naked with your head on fire and a shotgun in Bali or else you have to spend time with friends or family around the fireplace. And I'm choosing option B"
  - Tom Morello
  
  
• "I am enormously proud to be an American. I would say that the things that our corporate-controlled government has done at best are shameful and at worst genocidal-but there's an incredible and a permanent culture of resistance in this country that I'm very proud to be a part of. It's not the tradition of slave-owningfounding fathers, it's the tradition of the Frederick Douglasses, the Underground Railroads, the Chief Josephs, the Joe Hills, and the Huey P. Newtons. There's so much to be proud of when you're American that's hidden from you. The incredible courage and bravery of the union organizers in the late 1800's and early 1900's-that's amazing. People of get tricked into going overseas and fighting Uncle Sam's Wall Street wars, but these are people who knew what they were fighting for here at home. I think that that's so much more courageous and brave."
  
  - Tom Morello
  
  
• "The only bad "f-word" is FCC."
  
  - Tom Morello on censorship
  
  
• "This is a very unlikely tour package to be playing in venues this size. You've got Wu-Tang Clan, like the least commercial, least radio friendly, most raw hip-hop group on the planet, who also, coincidentally, has the number one album, and then Rage Against The Machine, whose politics make Ralph Nader look like Ghengis Khan."
  
  - Tom Morello, on the Rage/Wu-Tang tour on MTV's Week in Rock
  
  
• "I just finished reading Noam Chomsky's (who visited Israel a couple of weeks ago) biography, and among books I've taken I got one specially for Israel. A book that will give me some Info and understanding of some of the places we'll visit. It's called the "Bible" (the old testament)."
  
  Tom responding to a question about books he reads on tour
  
  
• "They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do."
  
  Zack uses this quote from Black Panther member Eldridge Cleaver usually at the beginning of Killing in the Name. He'll repeat it like 5 times, and then the song starts.
  
  
• "It's been 20 years....they have no proof....and he's still in jail"
  
  Zack says this 4 or 5 times before Freedom every once and awhile. Freedom has sortof become the song for Leonard Peltier, that's why Zack says that before it...I've only heard it once though.
  
  
• "Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music."
  
  Tom Morello in Alternative Press
  
  
• "A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs."
  
  Tom morello in Alternative Press
  
  
• "He has the nerve to call us violent when last year there were 80,000 cases of police brutality filed against departments all over the country this sheriff pig is poppin' off, poppin'off about how we're violent. Well, shit, he belongs to the most violent gang in US history."
  
  Zack referring to a Sheriff who tried to get the Rage concert banned.
  
  
• "The classroom's the last room to get the truth."
  
  Zack says this before Take the Power Back sometimes
  
  
• "This will be our final conduction of the afternoon..."
  
  Tom said this at their first show before playing the last song... I thought it was funny
  
  
• "Everybody have fun on inauguration day? It was fun. I like the fireworks my self. Nice."
  
  Zack talking about inauguration day...
  
  
• "Make some noise for Rage. That is the sickest thing I think I have ever seen here at MTV."
  
  Carson Daly, after a performance of "Guerrilla Radio" on Rage TV.
  
  
• "It�s nice to see kids going off to songs they haven�t heard yet."
  
  Brad Wilk on fan reaction to the new material.
  
  
• "It�s not at all the case where our audiences are empty glasses that we pour knowledge in. I think that Rage Against the Machine fans are for the most part pretty intelligent, and a lot of them are pretty pissed off and have got their own ideas."
  
  Tom Morello, explaining Rage�s relationship with the fans.
  
  
• "It�s a guitar!"
  
  Carson Daly, after Tom shows how he does the "Bulls On Parade" solo.
  
  
• "Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show."
  
  Tom Morello