What has violence ever accomplished?
What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled
by an assassin's bullet. ... No wrongs have ever been righted by riots
and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an
uncontrolled, uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not
the voice of reason. ... Whenever any American's life is taken by another
American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or
in the defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in
passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence - whenever
we tear at the fabric of the life which another man has painfully and
clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.
-- Robert F. Kennedy
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