Race Riot

Famous quotes containing the words race and/or riot:

    This is my father or, maybe,
    It is as he was,

    A likeness, one of the race of fathers: earth
    And sea and air.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    So when Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took some water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood; see to it yourselves.”
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 27:24.