"What did you expect? I don't know why we're so surprised. When you put your foot on a man’s neck and hold him down for three hundred years, and then you let him up, what’s he going to do? He’s going to knock your block off."
-President Lyndon B. Johnson re the toll of deaths, injuries, and arrests in Baltimore immediately after the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968, quoted in Nick Kotz, *Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America* at 418 (2015).