Maxine Waters Quotes

A riot is the language of the unheard.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

We are on the threshold of a significant breakthrough, and the greatest weapon is the mass demonstration.

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

Sometimes things need to get really bad before they can ever get better. Really bad can become untenable if enough people get sick of it. That was a big thing about why I ended up taking part in that rally [against police brutality] and ended up voicing my opinion and declaring what side I was standing on.

The cause of the riots were the rioters

We have the riots we deserve.

The Democratic Party hasn't whipped anybody into a frenzy. The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don't have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.

A rebellion is something that is developing as an explosion coming out of the righteous grievances of a community of people.

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

There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.

A general dissatisfaction unhappily prevailed among several of the lower orders of the people. This ill temper, which was partly occasioned by the high price of provisions ... too frequently manifested itself in acts of tumult and riot ...

[On Russia's civil disorder:] Comrade deputies, the most essential thing now is to overcome the crisis, to restore order in the country.

It was a bad looking mob. It was animated by the essence of revolution.

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.

From the quarrels and seditions which are often stirred up in a commonwealth, it never results that the citizens dissolve it, as often happens in the case of other associations; but only that they change its form into some other

My poor friends, you know as much about starting a riot as the Italians know about writing a symphony.

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.

The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.

People! Take to the streets and scream 'BE REASONABLE!'

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

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.

It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.