#riot

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough. ↗

— Jerome Cavanagh

#been #doing #enough #had #hope

It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

#burden #danger #difficulty #duty #even

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. ↗

— Henry Steele Commager

#authority #criticism #dangerous #equate #find

Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes. ↗

— Joe Conason

#agenda #billion #bush #bush tax cuts #coming

There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse. ↗

— Bob Cousy

#every #game #just #played #riots

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people. ↗

— George Galloway

#flags #fooling #means #patriotism #people

I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#could #court #day #days #flames

I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it. ↗

— Robert Greenwald

#charge #crisis #democracy #depends #each

If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000. ↗

— Tom Hayden

#data #gaining #inner #inner city #instead

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot. ↗

— William Randolph Hearst

#become #even #his #job #keep