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Riots are the voices of the unheard. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed. -- Ross Kemp
The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since. -- Tupac Shakur
Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all. -- Frank Herbert
The Rebecca Riots by David Williams is an unassuming book, but its significance is universal. The book and its author determined my life; they made me want to be a historian of Wales and of the world. -- Kenneth O. Morgan
I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement. -- Henry Louis Gates
Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots. -- Jessica Savitch
I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me. -- Tom Hanks
Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots. -- Jay Griffiths
The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English. -- Bobby Jindal
I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities. -- Lou Reed
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
Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or even by 'smoke signals' to gather the uprising against established political power. -- Eduardo Paes
The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word 'No.' -- Bob Barr
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970. -- Tom Hayden
I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests. -- Sue Monk Kidd
When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes. -- John Boyd Orr
I turned atheist in the '90s when India went through troubled times - communal riots, bomb blasts... Mumbai, where I live, was badly affected. I blamed religion; also, extremists on both sides - right and left. -- Amish Tripathi
In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had inflicted them on the national soul, challenging Americans' belief that they were a uniquely noble and honorable people. -- Thurston Clarke
I told the truth about the Miami life. It's a nice place to visit, but you don't want to live here. I lived through two major riots and three Category 5 hurricanes, I don't know if a lot of people could say that. -- Trick Daddy
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.
Rage' is the word that most often attaches itself to the Tea Party movement, and it's true that, from the outside looking in, their public demonstrations appear to be more enraged than any political events in America since the race riots and anti-war protests of the 1960s. -- Jonathan Raban
Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay. -- Martin Jacques
Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each other, there shouldn't be boundaries or fundamentalism. But I think literature is more than that; these are political views which most of us hold anyway. -- Arundhati Roy
The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier. -- Edmund 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
You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger and alienation, but after that, the response, sending the National Guard troops - a lot of violence was carried out and perpetrated by those who were allegedly coming here to protect residents. -- Cory Booker
I wrote two poems about the '81 uprisings: 'Di Great Insohreckshan' and 'Mekin Histri.' I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time. -- Linton Kwesi Johnson
It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities. -- Tate Taylor
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
We have the riots we deserve. -- Alain Badiou
Who's responsible for the riots? The rioters! -- Dan Quayle
The cause of the riots were the rioters -- Dan Quayle
Those who are quiet will always cause riots. -- Dr. Dre
The only riots were the people trying to get tickets. -- John Guare
There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse. -- Bob Cousy
No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots. -- Jesse Jackson
The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously. -- Georges Pompidou
Some of my films have caused riots, fights, and all kinds of things. -- Michael Snow
To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves. -- Etheridge Knight
Just say anything without even caring if it is true. That is how riots start. -- Colin Flaherty
Now [after election] where it goes into violence, I have a zero tolerance for riots. -- Rudy Giuliani
If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets, -- Chris Rock
The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow. -- William Allen White
I would certainly say that. I don't want to see riots. I don't want to see problems. -- Donald Trump
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and their participants know it. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters. -- Rush Limbaugh
Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body. -- Jean Cocteau
Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body." -- Jean Cocteau
I once had been in the middle of a mass chaos and terrible riots.There, I witnessed how men were truly such as beasts unleashed. -- Toba Beta
We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots ad executions. We kill every time we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame. -- Eberhard Arnold
Today I write,riots with insite!Tomorrow I read,take the lead!Sometimes I sleep, health to keep!But for now I write,and got no gripe! -- Leslie Austin
An Associated Press report by Chicago-based reporter Sharon Cohen in May 1993 examined Christian fundamentalists and concluded that they were prone to 'riots, terrorism - and death.' -- Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster. -- Wayne LaPierre
The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I want to see riots! I want to see the kind of riots where cab drivers are afraid to pick up white people! I want to see this guy! -- Bill Maher
Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate a city with a history of racial segregation. -- Aleksandar Hemon
I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots. -- Bas Rutten
Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by famine, riots, insurrection and war. -- Robert McNamara
I was kind of a weird kid in high school. I didn't have many friends in my age group because all they wanted to do was fight and have riots. -- Keith Stanfield
When the American people saw the LA riots and crowds of Blacks cheering O.J. Simpson (who was acquitted by the almost all Black jury), they received a peek into their future. -- David Duke
I don't think there's any money to be made doing something that's that contemporary without having a spin on it. If there's a London riots film with zombies, that'd have more chance. -- Michael Caton-Jones
I stuck on the lunchtime news. More riots. Tedious now. Depressing. You ever read Thucycdides? I'll boil him down for you in one easy moral: intergenerational war is a very bad thing. -- Adrian McKinty
Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on. -- Mahatma Gandhi
They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house. -- Langston Hughes
The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No. -- Bob Barr
I was raised and I was going to school in the suburbs of Paris. And so we, I didn't really go to the riots, to the barricade. I was too young, actually. Rather young. -- Isabelle Huppert
I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that happens when you look through the camera. You're looking for the shot. -- Haskell Wexler
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970. -- Tom Hayden
Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what positive social end, yet free speech absolutists were unchastened. -- Garry Trudeau
Shopping and buying and getting and having comprise the Great American Addiction. No one is immune. When the underclass riots in this country they don't kill policemen and politicians, they steal merchandise. How embarrassing. -- George Carlin

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