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If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion.

— Maxine Waters

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I don't see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars.

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I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

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