"After all, you're accusing a captive population who has been robbed of everything of looting. I think it's obscene." - James Baldwin

"Riot" - Miles Davis youtu.be/fVgQLtMDo3k

"I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester... Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside." - Gil Scott-Heron

"We gonna be burning and a-looting tonight (To survive, yeah)/Burning and a-looting tonight (Save your baby lives)." - Bob Marley youtu.be/M99nzyiS830

"There is no strength but that which is destructive, because man has lost his virtues, and only respects force, which he himself cannot counteract." - Marcus Garvey

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground." "Agitate! Agitate! Agitate!" -Frederick Douglass

"I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble." Also... "When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him." - Bayard Rustin

"If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority." - Barbara Jordan

"If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time." - Dorothy Height

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept." - Angela Davis