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A justification for unrest? Look no further than the Bible and the Founding Fathers

  • Written by Samira Mehta, Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies & Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
imageProtesters smash the window of a Chase bank during protests in OaklandAP Photo/Philip Pacheco

The civil unrest seen across the United States following the killing of George Floyd brings to the fore the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous observation that “a riot is the language of the unheard.”

Taken from his 1968 speech “The...

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