Activism Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large…

— Ilona Andrews

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences…

— George Washington

Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a…

— Anonymous

Rioting is not revolutionary.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Cities tend to be representations of societies: diversity and inequality find their extremes in urban settings. Yet, when war is added onto pre-existing inequalities,…

— Peter Maurer

Rioting is always an expression of rage at the hopelessness of the rioters' condition. People who have been educated well enough to feel that…

— Damian Green

Cities are drivers of growth and wealth, and at the same time, cities are becoming increasingly violent.

— Peter Maurer

If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify,…

— Zaha Hadid

(The city is being) destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for,…

— Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

The city is better because the city has an economy of needs and once you're talking about a city, maybe you can start talking…

— Jonathon Keats