Addresses Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

I think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And, what is it that America has failed…

— Martin Luther

And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

— Anonymous

“As the historian David Krugler explains, “African Americans were not so much rioting as fighting back, counterattacking, repelling violence; above all, resisting.”79”

— James Forman Jr

“When there is more concern for white sports fans in the vicinity of a riot than the black people facing off with police, there…

— Cindy Milstein

In Tampa, a race riot began when drunken white soldiers used a negro child as a target to show their markmanship...

— Howard Zinn

The NAACP should have riot rehearsals.

— Rush Limbaugh

“One strain of African American thought holds that it is a violent black recklessness—the black gangster, the black rioter—that strikes the ultimate terror in…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The cause of the riots were the rioters

— Dan Quayle

I would not hesitate to say that it is unfortunate that so-called demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham at this time, but I would…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture…

— Debbie Allen

“It was only after Detroit that riots became known as primarily urban phenomena, ultimately centered on inner-city blacks venting their frustrations on the ghettos…

— Isabel Wilkerson