Terry Gilliam Quotes

With George McGovern we wouldn’t have Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago.

Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had inflicted them on the national soul, challenging Americans' belief that they were a uniquely noble and honorable people.

There is no question that the Vietnam War ruined the 1968 convention in Chicago…. We had nothing to give the moderates on Vietnam so the hard-liners tore the convention apart.

I remember being in Washington for high school when the city was on fire and those were troubling times, the Vietnam War, the protests.

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.

Listen, 'The Purge' actually exists in some form or another in many places around the world when you think about it.

I am the people, I'm not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That's what the Panthers is doing, that's what the Panthers are doing all over the world.

Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.

'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.

Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed.

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

Vietnam in America was truly a second Civil War.

Part of the attraction of the riots is the looting, which seems to be almost unrestrained. I always thought that when rioting breaks out, looters must be shot. Otherwise the situation will get entirely out of hand. [Lyndon] Johnson has made all the right gestures but it is exceedingly difficult to see any end to the tension, let alone the violence which seems to be in some way part of the American way of life.

I asked myself … what could I do to help end the war if I were willing to go to prison? Now it wasn't at all clear that putting out the Pentagon Papers, which I thought would send me to prison, would be one of the better things I could do. It was history. It didn't prove what Nixon was about to do; it only suggested that he might do the same as all these other presidents.

I was 14 when the Democratic convention in my hometown of Chicago erupted into violence. It was a tough year.

You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.

In attacking the young, the liberal, and the black, Daley was in the mainstream of America's mass prejudices. The Democratic party may have suffered by his actions, but Daley came out...even more popular than before because bust their heads was the mood of the land and Daley had swung the biggest club.

I would certainly say that. I don't want to see riots. I don't want to see problems.