City Quote by Wendell Pierce

“ALL THESE CONFRONTATIONS PALED before the outbreak of urban riots in 1966 and 1967. There were thirty-eight riots in 1966, the most serious in…

— James T. Patterson

The cause of the riots were the rioters

— Dan Quayle

“Boston itself was a flea market of racism. It had all varieties, old and new. The city had corrupt, city hall-crony racists, brick-throwing, send-’em-back-to-Africa…

— Bill Russell

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used…

— John Foster Dulles

I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in…

— Lou Reed

We had a lot of riots. We came under attack from many of the police departments. It certainly wasn't some publicity thing. I was…

— Greg Ginn

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

Even as a child, I was witness to protests against a film or a play or a book. All through my growing years, I…

— Manoj Bajpayee

“The Watts riot in Los Angeles in 1965 was a classic example of this new alignment. A whole community turned on the police with…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“The police have also been under hostile scrutiny because of their handling of the student protests over fees. I sympathise: they’re in an impossible…

— David Mitchell

The violent rioting that is sometimes now being called protesting - it makes the emotions so high that you almost cannot see the insults…

— Alveda King

The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.

— John Guare