Quotes About Riot

If you ever want to incite a riot north of New York City, mention raising taxes and see what happens.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection. - The Babies speech 1879

And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? ... It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.

Yet the average white person also has a responsibility. He has to resist the impulse to seize upon the rioter as the exclusive villain. He has to rise up with indignation against his own municipal, state and national governments to demand that the necessary reforms be instituted which alone will protect him. If he reserves his resentment only for the Negro, he will be the victim by allowing those who have the greatest culpability to evade responsibility.

Others rioted simply because it focused their anger and disgust at something other than the tediousness of their lives.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Riot: Close to three hundred million Americans have died, son, during the Fall and in the years after...How many have to croak before y'all consider it game over? Lilah: All.

I don't know why Nightingale was so surprised—I barely knew four and a half spells and you couldn't have got me to give it up, and that's despite close brushes with death by vampire, hanging, malignant spirit, riot, tigerman, and the ever-present risk of overdoing the magic and getting a brain aneurysm.

A London copper doesn't like to intrude upon a traveler camp with anything less than a van full of bodies in riot gear—it's considered disrespectful otherwise.

A London copper doesn't like to intrude upon a traveller camp with anything less than a van full of bodies in riot gear – it's considered disrespectful otherwise.

Only at [a] university is a riot an "uprising," a police officer a thug, and a criminal a hero.

A mob's a monster; heads enough but no brains.

I saw my hometown burning that day.

I started my own zine, and riot grrrl became a huge part of my identity.

I want to cause havoc. I want to cause mayhem - and I mean the worst mayhem you can see.

While our friends were rioting, handcuffed and starving, in the yard, we were the ones banging on open cell doors, bellies full, crying for our freedom.

People should riot for their freedom but first they have to understand who they are and how they are ruled.

The king is overthrown, I thought. The emerald curtain is pulled aside. The rabble of my head is free to run riot; I can do what I damn well please. For what man, if not my own father, has the power to tell me otherwise? Whatever I do, it seems, I won't do much worse than he did.

He spoke for an hour on the nonviolent road to independence. The crowd loved it so much they rioted and killed twelve people.

It was big enough for five village dances and a riot.

Etienne's son Paul, a surly fellow whose erratic conduct had probably provoked the riot which wiped out the family, was particularly a source of speculation; and though Providence never shared the witchcraft panics of her Puritan neighbours, it was freely intimated by old wives that his prayers were neither uttered at the proper time nor directed toward the proper object.

While staging demonstrations against wrongs, please do not cross the line, and see to it that no situation is allowed to turn into a riot.

Overreacting as usual," Bosch said. "One fire and they're all there, showing the flames. You know what that does? That's like throwing gasoline on it. It will spread now. People will see that in their living rooms and go outside to see what is happening. Groups will form, things will be said and people won't be able to back down from their anger. One thing will lead to another and we'll have our media-manufactured riot.