"No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by his 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 the
people.
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 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 life which another man has
painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole
nation is degraded.
'Among free men,' said Abraham Lincoln,
'there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and
those who take such appeal are sure to lose their cause and pay the
costs.' " - Bobby Kennedy
