"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
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John F. Kennedy
(1917-1963) 35th US President
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In a speech at the White House, 1962
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I've heard it differently. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable."

Here's a YouTube of JFK saying it as above:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugH-mxFzr9U

 -- Anon ye Mous, freetown     
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    When taken in the extreme ("impossible"), the concept as a whole is most accurate. When the peaceful efforts / revolution are met with an "improbable" (Gandhi by example), the result is different.
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    What a topsy-turvy world in which rioting and mayhem is "peaceful" while gathering peacefully at the nation's capital for a redress of grievances is an "insurrection."
     -- E Archer, NYC     
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    There must be a differentiating course between violence and revolution. Every upset individual on a mass murder spee probably justifies their action as some kind of revolution.  This reasoning leads me to declare a revolution can only be peaceful.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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