Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defend its decision to judge only students and not faculty and administrators as well? That decision never belonged to the CRR to make. Last year the Faculty of Arts and Sciences authorized the CRR to deal only with student violations of the Resolution of Rights and Responsibilities. This year, and last, the Faculty has been trying to arrive at an acceptable mechanism for dealing with faculty violations, and will debate this issue at its April meeting...
...these circumstances it is imperative that members of this University reaffirm their support of free speech and think through their responsibility to maintain it. We can defend the right to dissent within the broader society only if we protect that right within our own community...
...mindless chanting of the disrupters. I suffered nonetheless from its violence. When the speakers' right to speak was crushed so was my right to hear them. I asked myself where I might find redress; I who have no organized mob to support me and no ready means to defend my rights with force. When unchecked power raises its fist to smash my liberties, must I despair...
...hope that I need not. It is that hope which leads me to write these words to those within the Harvard community who have the means to defend my rights, which are the rights of all. I turn to them in the belief that they will not be deaf to appeals made in the name of peace, of freedom and indeed of life itself. The peace of the Harvard community is at stake, for should it not act and act firmly then Harvard shall become a place in which only those can thrive who promote their beliefs with violence...
...perform a significant if largely ceremonial function. The rulers of a dictatorship need an apparatus that seems to confirm their legitimacy, a formal link to the party rank and file, and a sounding board, however limited, for their pronouncements. For the leadership, a Party Congress is an occasion to defend its record, assess the country's condition and chart the course ahead...