Quote

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.

— John Foster Dulles

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

←Previous Next→

✓Similar Perspectives

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

— Georges Pompidou

I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London's texture.

— Peter Ackroyd

I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities.

— Lou Reed

I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.

— Tom Hanks

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.

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rioting definitely brings attention to the situation at hand.

— Ty Dolla Sign

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.

— Alveda King

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

— Tom Hayden

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Paddy Ashdown