Riot Quotes - Page 4

• Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, White Man, Years

  Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

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• The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Should Have, Practice, Racist

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", 1992.

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• No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't for the government. Character matters; leadership descends from character. If you commit a crime, you're guilty. Compassion is no substitute for justice. Poverty is not the root cause of crime. The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Kings, Character, Compassion

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• Now [after election] where it goes into violence, I have a zero tolerance for riots.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Zero, Tolerance, Violence

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Causing a riot is what I do best.

  Melina Marchetta

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• My mother got sick when I was rich. And my mother, you know … I don’t really want to get into it, but my mother was sicker than my father. And my mother’s alive. My mother’s fine, OK? I remember going to the hospital to see my mother and wondering, ‘Was I in the right place?’ Like, this was a hotel. Like it had a concierge, man. If the average person really knew the discrepancy in the health care system, there’d be riots in the streets, OK? They would burn this m-therf—ker down!

  Chris Rock

  Mother, Father, Men

  "Chris Rock Talks Health Care Reform, Democratic Party’s Timidity". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2010.

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• 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

  Tone, Comedy, Psychological

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.431, Penguin

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• We shouldn't need riot police at schools.

  Noel Gallagher

  School, Police, Needs

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• No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Sheep, Revolution, Status Quo

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• The cause of the riots were the rioters

  Dan Quayle

  Politics, Causes

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• 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

  Children, Two, House

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• 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

  Views, Jail, Pussy

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• There have been decades of failed policies: zero tolerance, harassment and people being locked up for small crimes -\-\ policies that drive a divide between communities and law enforcement. So many people feel like they are voiceless, that they've been dehumanized. What we saw in the riots is a result of that.

  Marilyn Mosby

  Zero, Law, People

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• 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

  Rights, Movement, Window

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• I used to dream militant dreams of taking over america to show these whitefolks how it should be done i used to dream radical dreams of blowing everyone away with my perceptive powers of correct analysis i even used to think that i'd be the one to stop the riot and negotiate the peace then i awoke & dug that if i dreamed natural dreams of being a natural woman doing what a woman does when she's natural i would have a revolution.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Dream, Thinking, America

  Nikki Giovanni (1970). “Re:creation”, Broadside Pr

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• 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

  Taken, Uprising, Two

  "Trust between the police and the black community is still broken" by Linton Kwesi Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2012.

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• It is still your work or role that finally gives you your definition in our society, and the thousands upon thousands of people who I believe are like me are those who have never found the professional skin to fit the riot in their souls .

  Seymour Krim

  Believe, People, Giving

  Seymour Krim (1991). “What's this cat's story?: the best of Seymour Krim”, Paragon House Publishers

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• There were times when there were riots in Africa, demonstrations against the IMF because of the policy advice they were giving, the conditionalities they were imposing, and the difficulties that arose out of the implementation of those conditionalities.

  Jakaya Kikwete

  Giving, Advice, Imf

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• 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

  Eye, Giving, Movement

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• I'm always looking to find order within the chaos. And sometimes when my life gets fairly chaotic, I'll take a walk outside. I think about the order and the perfection of galaxies of planets in orbit and traveling around space and thinking how chaotic the wars and divorces and riots on our planet must look from outer space.

  Jon Foreman

  War, Divorce, Thinking

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, New York, Humor

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". m.imdb.com. 1993.

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• Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill.

  Daniel Pipes

  Islam, Muhammad, Again And Again

  "A Muhammad cartoon a day" by Daniel Pipes, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.

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• 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

  Running, Order, Gita

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• To write a blues song
  is to regiment riots
  and pluck gems from graves.

  Etheridge Knight

  Song, Writing, Pluck

  Etheridge Knight (1980). “Born of a woman: new and selected poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• 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.

  Christian, Religious, Chicago

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