Riot Quotes

185 Riot quotes by 159 unique authors

I think acceptance of human rights is going to progress from one day to the next. I don't think there's going to be any violent… — Erskine Caldwell
Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a… — John Herschel
The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously. — Georges Pompidou
Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea. — N. T. Wright
Choose what you want to do – or watch someone else doing it. Learn how to handle tools, paint, babies, machinery, or just listen to… — Joan Littlewood
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… — Jonathan Mayhew
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… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Riots are the voices of the unheard. — Martin Luther King, 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… — Wayne LaPierre
They say people can think for themselves? Do you honestly believe that the chap who can’t pass primary six knows the consequence of his choice… — Lee Kuan Yew
My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet. — Samuel Hoffenstein
There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice, unfounded assertions, and… — Helen Thompson Woolley
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… — Norman Tebbit
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… — Tom Hayden
How many of y'all wondered, like I did, during the LA riots when those people were being pulled out of their trucks and beaten half… — Bill Hicks
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.… — Ogden Nash
A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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… — Octavio Paz
Life isn't always easy but so long as we have hope that we will find someone to help us through the darkness things will always… — George Sand
If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway. But men do not… — Edward Bernays
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… — Clifford Irving
Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers… — Paddy Ashdown
I was a radical, a revolutionist. I am still a revolutionist…I am glad I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when someone threw a… — Sylvia Rivera
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… — Bas Rutten
Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has… — Charlie LeDuff

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