Alain Badiou Quotes
We have the riots we deserve.
Badiou, Alain. The Meaning of Sarkozy. Translated by David Fernbach, Verso, 2008, p. 60.
This quote is often cited to imply that Luther endorsed rioting which is not the case. See the related quotes from the same speech for the larger context of the quote which makes clear Luther’s true views of the unproductiveness and destructiveness of rioting.
He was sentenced to life in prison for his advocating Violence if the Uighurs would not be given their independence. They were then the 2nd largest Muslim group in China.
This paraphrased quote originated with Martin Luther King, Jr. See related quote.
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo silently marched every week asking what had happened to the children—the disappeared—who were kidnapped and murdered in the Argentine Dirty War. The President warned the crowd that their protests might attract the death squads again.
He had just spent 15 months in Italy and did not admire Italian symphonic abilities. The English Chartists wanted to organize demonstrations and protests but had little experience and know how.
The Confederate Civilian & Military Authorities in the Confederate Capital were grossly insensitive to the perceptions and opinions of the women of the South. This statement was a classic example. It also indicates the terribly serious plight the Confederacy was in at the time. Just as the leadership deluded themselves into thinking that the women of Richmond would riot and loot for “license ” and not for shortage and want of necessities, they did not face the reality of their strategic military situation.
of the Civil Rights Movement
Commenting on student demonstrations protesting the House Un-American Activities Committee:
Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-François Lyotard. Badiou has written about the concepts of being, truth, event and the subject in a way that, he claims, is neither postmodern nor simply a repetition of modernity. Badiou has been involved in a number of political organisations, and regularly comments on political events. Badiou argues for a return of communism as a political force.
