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Robert F. Kennedy: “A government that can censor its critics has license for every atrocity. It is the beginning of totalitarianism.”

On the recordJuly 19, 2023
A government that can censor its critics has license for every atrocity. It is the beginning of totalitarianism.
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Robert F. Kennedy
New York

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Kennedy warns about the dangers of government censorship.

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