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Riot is the voice of the unheard. -- Maxine Waters
A riot is the language of the unheard. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet. -- Samuel Hoffenstein
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. -- Audre Lorde
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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. -- William Penn
Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot. -- Debbie Allen
I thank Pussy Riot for standing firmly in their belief for Freedom of Expression, and making all women of the world proud to be women. -- Yoko Ono
I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds! -- Caitlin Moran
I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally. -- John Foster Dulles
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can no longer attend concerts by his favorite group Deep Purple without having to fear that the musicians will wear T-shirts with Pussy Riot written on them. -- Alexei Navalny
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. -- Washington Irving
Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark green sounds. The grove, suddenly still, is a web of fronds and branches. -- Octavio Paz
I'm not really saddened that [Pussy Riot] ended up in jail, though there is nothing good in that. What saddens me is that they took things to such a level, here, from my point of view, that they degraded the dignity of women. -- Vladimir Putin
The challenging of repression by a new generation of activists - from Malala Yousafzai to Pussy Riot - across the globe reminded us how many women are still fighting for basic human rights. Our great-grandmothers' struggle in all its shocking detail seemed so relevant. -- Sarah Gavron
The NAACP should have riot rehearsals. -- Rush Limbaugh
Riots are the voices of the unheard. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only riots were the people trying to get tickets. -- John Guare
My dad didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work -- Norman Tebbit
A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. -- Richard M. Nixon
The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously. -- Georges Pompidou
The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters. -- Rush Limbaugh
On the correctly formed pubescent girl, a Speedo looked wonderful. When it was wet, it was an incitement to riot. -- Clive James
On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire. -- Ben Aaronovitch
The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation. -- Ogden Nash
As a matter of fact student riots of one sort or another, protests against the order that is, kicks against college and university management indicate a healthy growth and a normal functioning of the academic mind. -- William Allen White
When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot. -- Stephen Root
If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion. -- Maxine Waters
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death? -- Emile M. Cioran
If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow. -- William Allen White
When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame. -- Dan Quayle
I'd like to cause a little riot in skating. -- Sasha Cohen
Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair. -- Saul Williams
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. -- Virginia Woolf
You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available. -- Harold H. Greene
It costs governments money to keep fuel prices low. Oil-rich Yemen, for instance, devotes 9 percent of its GDP to making sure its people don't riot when oil prices rise. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me. -- Tracy Chapman
The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then. -- Debbie Allen
The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling because when I was a little girl I remember the horror of the East St. Louis race riot. -- Josephine Baker
While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot. -- Frank Rich
Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud. -- Saint Ambrose
I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot. -- George Weah
When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot. -- Maggie Stiefvater
To make riot grrrl move into the future in a new way with a bunch of new names and a bunch of new energy, younger people have to learn about it and apply it to their own lives and own modern conversation. And they are. -- Kathleen Hanna
For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc. -- Jason Calacanis
The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined. -- Evelyn Glennie
Your brain sends out vibrations all the time, and your thoughts affect your life and other people's. They pick up these thoughts and get changed by them. That's why, say, a pacifist gets caught up in a riot situation. It's a field of vibrations - you can 'feel' someone else's thoughts when close to them. -- Bruce Lipton
If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech. -- Ann Coulter
We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore. -- Louise Mensch
Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy by human standards. But I find all states of nature beautiful, and because I want to delight in my garden, not rule it, I just accept my yen to tame the chaos on one day and let the Japanese beetles run riot on the next. -- Diane Ackerman
The spirits run riot in youth. -- Ovid
We shouldn't need riot police at schools. -- Noel Gallagher
Well, the clown suit is a riot, too. -- Michael Chiklis
Causing a riot is what I do best. -- Melina Marchetta
But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I love telling myself jokes. I think I'm a riot. -- Scott Stevens
The only riot I'm okay with is a zoot suit riot. -- Julie Klausner
It's nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot! -- Bjork
He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work. -- Norman Tebbit
Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea. -- N. T. Wright
The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies. -- Rush Limbaugh
Burn, Hollywood, burn, I smell a riot goin' on, First they're guilty, now they're gone! -- Chuck D
I love the opportunity to just let my imagination run riot! Non-fiction can be very restrictive. -- Raymond Buckland
A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health. -- Daniel Baldwin
I can't believe that OMON [Russia's riot police] would hit a girl. I simply can't imagine it. -- Vladimir Putin
October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween. -- Keith Donohue
I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time. -- Bitsie Tulloch
Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot. -- Vera Nazarian
An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot. -- Xenocrates
Shutting down governments on your computer is just as much as fun as going to a riot at Yale. -- John Waters
Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill. -- Daniel Pipes
No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing. -- Ellen Glasgow
We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough. -- Jerome Cavanagh
The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history. -- Tom Cardamone
There's only two things you can start without a plan: a riot and a family, for everything else you need a plan. -- Groucho Marx
Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle. -- Ashok K. Banker
Only in Cali where we riot not rally to live and die In L.A. we wearin Chucks not Ballies (that's right) -- Tupac Shakur
I knew such a woman once,She gave me everything.Her love like a soft riot singing,She knew how to shine. -- Scott Hastie
Nobody cared about the riot until they thought it might spill into their nice neighborhoods. Then they got scared and called the National Guard. -- Snoop Dogg
Now liberals compare their every riot, every traffic blockage, every Starbucks-window-smashing street protest to the civil rights movement -- which was only necessary because of them. -- Ann Coulter
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery. -- Jonathan Mayhew
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery -- Jonathan Mayhew
In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden. -- Clifford Irving
The lo-fi scene and the riot grrrl thing had a huge influence on me. As a teenager I went to see Bikini Kill and all those bands. -- Kieran Hebden
Left to itself, a heart will run riot with sin. But if a heart responds to the ministry of the Word, there can be fruit and beauty. -- Warren W. Wiersbe
Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty. -- Maria Edgeworth
The studio are making a lot of good noises about 'Bunker Hill;' so it would be great if that goes ahead. We had a riot filming it. -- Tony Curran
If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000." -- Tom Hayden
Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot. -- Dick Gregory
Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it. -- Norman Tebbit
There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I. -- A. E. Housman
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot. -- Robert A. Heinlein
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot... -- Robert A. Heinlein
Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks. -- Tamora Pierce
In the beginning of the Great War, the emotions of Europe ran riot in a most horrible manner, first among the so-called 'living,' and then among the killed when they awoke. -- Max Heindel
Soccer matches in Europe have riot police. Metal is just people sloshing around drunk and sloppy and having fun, and there's nothing wrong with that. It is a great outlet for aggression. -- Chris Reifert
I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down. -- Toyin Odutola
Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again. -- Samuel Beckett
Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Mother of mercy,"said Tovar."And that caused the riot?" "It's the other way around,"said Kira sheepishly."We started the riot as a distraction for the jaibreak." Tovar whistled."You don't mess aroud." P303 -- Dan Wells
We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff. -- Yahoo Serious
Let it all out. If only I could. Letting it all out would involve me exploding like a firework, a beautiful riot of rainbow sparks bouncing around the car and lighting up the entire lot. -- Nick Burd
It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour. -- Charles Hazlewood

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