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What does it mean?
Violent unrest can serve as the voice for people who are ignored.
In plain terms
Riots happen because the unheard have no other voice.
What can you take from it?
Rioting is often a last resort for silenced people.

Where it applies

  • civil rights
  • protest
  • social justice

Putting it to work

  • listen to marginalized
  • address grievances
  • avoid suppression

Questions to consider

  • When do people riot?
  • Who is the unheard?

Another view

It romanticizes violence as a form of expression.

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