I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class… — Bas Rutten Copy Share Image
I've been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods... forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm… — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
“It was only after Detroit that riots became known as primarily urban phenomena, ultimately centered on inner-city blacks venting their frustrations on… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“In a couple of ways, the Watts riots were the first major incident to nudge the United States toward more militaristic policing.” — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
“We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots ad executions. We kill every time we close our eyes to poverty,… — Eberhard Arnold Copy Share Image
“Christians, Catholics, Armenians, Copts, Jews and even the occasional Hindu lived side by side in relative harmony. Though they had their share… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties…and the striving for… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Everywhere were metastasizing telephone lines, riots of electric wires, laundry hanging from prefabricated apartment windows like tears from idiot eyes.” — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I took over a city that had two riots in four years and I had none. And they knew they couldn't riot… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
I was doing stand up comedy when I was 11, that's how I got started; not because I wanted to do comedy,… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police.… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
“Riots come and go, wars come and go, but under the tumult, day after day, century after century, millions of people are… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“The authorities in Yorkshire have rounded up their rioters, and divided them into those to be charged with affray and manslaughter, and… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I turned atheist in the '90s when India went through troubled times - communal riots, bomb blasts... Mumbai, where I live, was… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
We had a lot of riots. We came under attack from many of the police departments. It certainly wasn't some publicity thing.… — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
One of the first things I did when I finished my Ph.D. was work with the police to look at what happened… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Before the L.A. riots, I'd only heard of the original Watts riots. But I'd also seen violence like that close up, but… — DJ Yella Copy Share Image
I grew up at Kabir Choura in Varanasi in the 1970s. It was an era when communal riots used to happen every… — Anubhav Sinha Copy Share Image
“You can't fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor,… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Religious riots are the outcome of ambitions of Political leadership which are spread by their hirelings otherwise a responsible householder has the… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
During a single week of July 1967, 164 Americans were killed and 2100 were wounded in city riots in the United States.… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
There have been decades of failed policies: zero tolerance, harassment and people being locked up for small crimes -\-\ policies that drive… — Marilyn Mosby Copy Share Image
In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had… — Thurston Clarke Copy Share Image
It's not often that you get to read something that just feels very original for a star but also something that feels… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
“Is this, Miriam wonders, what they call the march of history? And even if she doesn't fully understand, it doesn't mean she… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“I later heard somewhere, or read, that Malcolm X telephoned an apology to the reporter. But this was the kind of evidence… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
“It was funny, when you thought about it; what were all those men rioting about? What did they think they could accomplish?… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Samuel Gompers, standing at the back of speaker’s wagon No. 5, ask, “Why should the wealth of the country be stored in… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
