rabble-rousers

They heard various speakers' lamentations for the passing of Muammar Qaddafi and the tribulations of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad both Russian allies, claims that oppositionists were on the U.S. payroll, and denunciations of the whole Bolotnaya crowd, characterized as rabble-rousers intent on another Russian revolution.

BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2012

And I am further convinced that if our white brothers dismiss as “rabble-rousers” and “outside agitators” those of us who employ nonviolent direct action, and if they refuse to support our nonviolent efforts, millions of Negroes will, out of frustration and despair, seek solace and security in black-nationalist ideologies, a development that would inevitably lead to a frightening racial nightmare.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

They are part-time artists, athletes, and general rabble-rousers.

Lorraine Roe: Moms Just Want to Have Fun Lorraine Roe 2010

If we can tune out the noisy rabble-rousers, reframe our questions, and commit to responsible conversation that is grounded in our own common sense and decency, I believe we would find much common ground, and make a lot more progress towards a just and cost-effective health care system.

Maggie Kozel, M.D.: Health Care Reform: We Need to Reframe the Questions M.D. Maggie Kozel 2011

They are part-time artists, athletes, and general rabble-rousers.

Lorraine Roe: Moms Just Want to Have Fun Lorraine Roe 2010

They are part-time artists, athletes, and general rabble-rousers.

Lorraine Roe: Moms Just Want to Have Fun Lorraine Roe 2010

If we can tune out the noisy rabble-rousers, reframe our questions, and commit to responsible conversation that is grounded in our own common sense and decency, I believe we would find much common ground, and make a lot more progress towards a just and cost-effective health care system.

Maggie Kozel, M.D.: Health Care Reform: We Need to Reframe the Questions M.D. Maggie Kozel 2011

And as someone else alluded to, Stalin then proceeded to murder most of the Polish officer corps (along with a few other rabble-rousers including a contingent of prominent Polish Jews) in the Katyn Forest.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Not a May Day Parade 2010

And like the rabble-rousers of Jim Crow fame, they do the dirty work at the behest of oligarchs such as the Koch brothers, who find them useful if not entertaining.

David A. Love: Tea Party Diversity Effort Is a Public Relations Scam David A. Love 2010

The documentary uses the vintage material, originally used for a series of broadcasts on Swedish Television before going missing for some four decades to present the major personas of the movement—Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale and others—neither as larger-than-life icons of resistance nor the angry rabble-rousers demonized by the media.

Mixing and Maximizing Steve Dollar 2011