Riots Quotes

• The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Violence
  • Inspiration
  • Respond

• I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Would
  • Streets
  • Riots

• The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

  

  Georges Pompidou
  • Take
  • Seriously
  • Riots

• Riots are the voices of the unheard.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Voices
  • Riots
  • Unheard

• I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Confusion
  • Cause
  • Riots

• 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 received a peek into their future.

  

  David Duke
  • Future
  • Crowds
  • Riots

• America cannot function if we are a society fueled by riots.

  

  Meghan McCain
  • Society
  • Function
  • Riots

• The creation of India and Pakistan were pyrrhic victories for their denizens because the political, socioeconomic, psychological, and culture havoc wreaked by that momentous event is reflected in those pogroms, ethnic cleansing, proliferation of nuclear weapons, poverty, and riots that continue to cause seismic tremors in the Indian subcontinent.

  

  Nyla Ali Khan
  • Pakistan
  • Riots
  • Havoc

• There was no actually stock footage in Medium Cool. I wrote the script. I wrote the riots. And I integrated the actors in the film in the park during the demonstrations. But nowhere was it like we had stock footage and then later, in editing, integrated it into the film. It was all done at the time.

  

  Haskell Wexler
  • Actors
  • Script
  • Medium Cool