Riots Quotes

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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
If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets, — Chris Rock
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… — Bobby Jindal
I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both… — Naomi Wallace
In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and… — Thomas Sowell
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… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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… — David Duke
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,… — Arundhati Roy
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… — Langston Hughes
I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes… — Eugene V. Debs
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… — Jonathan Raban
The cause of the riots were the rioters — Dan Quayle
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… — 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… — Louise Mensch
For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to… — Frank Delaney
Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots. — Jay Griffiths
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… — Linton Kwesi Johnson
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… — Jakaya Kikwete
As a matter of fact student riots of one sort or another, protests against the order that is, kicks against college and university management indicate… — William Allen White
Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the… — Vladimir Lenin

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