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Revolts in L.A. don’t always need literal flames — because the ones that burn brightest and longest are moral and philosophical.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025

Revolts against taxation and the Roman looting of the Second Temple in Jerusalem led to war in 66 CE.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Revolts were staged in at least 50 cities.

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2021

Gates points to the classic 1943 Herbert Aptheker book American Negro Slave Revolts, which broke with professional tradition and tallied about 250 instances of violent rebellion.

From Slate • May 2, 2018

Revolts which arose in different parts of the Aghlabite kingdom were, however, speedily quelled.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various