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Richard Nixon: In a system like ours, which provides the means for peaceful change, no cause justifies violence in the name of change.

On the recordSeptember 15, 1970
In a system like ours, which provides the means for peaceful change, no cause justifies violence in the name of change.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Address in the Alfred M. Landon Lecture Series at Kansas State University

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