Amit Shah Quotes

I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety.

Hundreds of policemen and detectives, swinging nightsticks, blackjacks, and bare fists, rushed into the crowd, hitting out at all with whom they came into contract, chasing many across the street and into adjacent thoroughfares and pushing hundreds off their feet. From all parts of the scene of battle came the screams of women and cries of men with bloody heads and faces.

Peaceful demonstrations are essential to our democratic system. Unfortunately, some individuals have engaged in unlawful and dangerous activity, including arson, rioting, looting, and damaging public and private property.

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 should get inside, beat up the police and bust up the whole building. Where are your guns and bombs?

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

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!

I am against revolutions. We have had negative experience with coups and rallies in the past. We remember the shooting at the White House in Moscow The new Russian protest is the most beautiful, most peaceful, most intelligent protest in the world—not a single broken window, not a single burned care or victim.

They formed up in marching order, whilst at their lead rushed a man … shouting wildly, ‘Fall in and follow me’ …. As the crowd continued to advance an order was given: ‘Draw-Ready-Charge!’ Men in the crowd went down like ninepins, and the rest fled helter skelter. Constables wearing bandoliers filled with bullets and with rifles at the ready were jumping out of caged cars…. Batons were useless and the police were compelled to fire.

Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.

One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.

On Tuesday morning a large group of women came and. demanded, peace .The next day they came again in a far greater number... they became unruly and many women were killed by the trained guard.

Adults must awaken to the urgency of the young people’s unrest—in other words, there must be created an adult unrest against the inequities and injustices in the present system.

Right here in Mississippi some people are about ready to lead a mob … In fact, I’m getting a little pink myself.

The most peaceful and responsible thing this body could do is listen to the complaints of people who have resorted to violent action.

The Boston Mob, raised first by the Instigation of Many of the Principle Inhabitants, Allured by Plunder, rose shortly after of their own accord.

I have one more problem for your computer. How long will take five hundred thousand angry Americans to climb that White House wall out there and lynch their President if he does something like that?

The fact that people gather with placards is abnormal. Other countries would not allow that. Our democracy is in many cases excessive.

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

This don't go here. [A major riot ensued.]

The fires of discord are busy in every city. Redress is sought in the street, in demonstrations, parades and protests which create tensions and threaten violence. We face, therefore, a moral crisis as a country and as a people.

The non-violent way does not bring about miracles.

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

The soldier is applauded who refuses to serve in an unjust war by those who do not refuse to sustain the unjust government which makes the war