Mike Todd Quotes

Rioting definitely brings attention to the situation at hand.

What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.

A demonstration sometimes doesn’t stop with expressing opinion….it moves to incitement to violence and then to violence

This is an unlawful march. It will not be allowed to continue…. Troopers Advance!

There are actually not too many people in the prisons. There were hundreds and thousands of people who came on the streets voicing their opinions. If we had to capture all of them, the prisons would not even have space. The few that are in prison are the ones who vandalized and created violence and took away the safety of the people.

I think it is extremely inappropriate for people to be blocking traffic, to be harassing people going about their everyday business and violating the law. I do not support that kind of behavior.

I was - the last protest I was at was in Genoa, where I got tear gassed, and I hate tear gas, and I hate being in crowds.

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.

They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer.

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

I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines.

To pass a big idea in this town. You almost need social unrest

Soldiers quartered in a populous town will always occasion two mobs where they prevent one. They are wretched conservators of the peace.

[On urban unrest:] The only way to get respect is to be willing to use violence.

If any considerable number of citizens who are generally law abiding think that some particular statute is bad enough in itself or dangerous enough in its indirect effects to make it worthwhile to block its enforcement, they can do so.

Mr. President, we are going to march on Washington. The people are restless. The Black masses are restless.

Everybody handles protesters differently.

The violent rioting that is sometimes now being called protesting - it makes the emotions so high that you almost cannot see the insults and injuries that are the people are suffering.

I was arrested when I was 19 for inciting a riot.

Leftist law breaking, rule breaking, violence, and disruption have already marred the public Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.

There is a right to protest in our country, but at times the manner in which the protest is done breaks all permissible levels. I don't agree with it at all.

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.