I told the truth about the Miami life. It's a nice place…

“To riot or not to riot, that is the question.”

— Steven Magee

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams…

— Sue Monk Kidd

For example, it was this pack of wolves that sparked off the Rodney King affair a few years ago in Los Angeles. Let us…

— Paul Virilio

When the riots happened in L.A., they didn't go to Beverly Hills to trash Rodeo Drive. They trashed their own neighborhoods. It's one of…

— Samuel L. Jackson

I turned atheist in the '90s when India went through troubled times - communal riots, bomb blasts... Mumbai, where I live, was badly affected.…

— Amish Tripathi

“You would have realized that it wasn't Mumtaz, a muslim, a friend of yours, but a human being you had killed. I mean, if…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what it is…

— Matthew Desmond

We have the riots we deserve.

— Alain Badiou

The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of…

— Bob Barr

I was doing stand up comedy when I was 11, that's how I got started; not because I wanted to do comedy, but because…

— Shia LaBeouf

“South of Larissa the landscape began to change. Jude watched an irrigation machine like a giant stick insect creeping over a field, and a…

— Paul Alkazraji

I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.

— Henry Louis Gates

You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police. And all…

— David Maraniss

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…

— Tom Hayden

The communal riots ignorance of the people and the result of political ambition are the leaders

— Mak_786