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Freedom of speech--freedom to oppose ideas and policies which have the support of popular majorities or of government officials and to express one's disagreement in emphatic terms--provided one does not advocate disobedience to law--is the heritage of every American citizen. It is an essential element of that democratic faith which we are now bending all our energies to defend. Freedom of speech and of opinion within university communities is peculiarly necessary to the survival of our national liberties and of our civilization. It is the special function of universities to provide a place in which...
...question at issue is one of national policy in an emergency in no way affects this principle. Students, like the rest of us, have no right to disobey the laws or to advocate disobedience to law. They have the same right as the rest of us have to express vigorous disapproval of anything which government has done or proposes...
Obviously, no one, be he professor or student, may speak for the university without authority, and all individuals and groups within the university should recognize the danger of impairing its good name by ill-considered utterances. But the right to seek truth and to express opinions belong to all alike. Our university students are members of a fellowship of free men, not raw material to be molded into docile little yes-men by the skilled hands of their teachers...
Bellowed Boss Hague: "The question is -must the county of Hudson be crucified, humiliated and destroyed because you as citizens express yourself in behalf of its officials and their beliefs...
Although its opening meeting tonight will express a solid, non-intervention front, it is becoming increasingly evident that the Student Union is by no means committed to following this policy throughout the year...