Word: musts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the job. In the offing too are the new generations of young people waiting and needing to learn. In the light of these considerations the one unlikable conclusion, which I take it I share with you, is that the turmoil and violence on our campuses must stop...
...firm conviction is that the campus communities themselves are the only instruments by which the desired end can properly be effected. If this desired result is to be achieved, students, faculties, administrative officers, governing boards and alumni all together must now say, "Enough is enough," and beyond this, they must mean it and show by their actions that they mean it. And--though some of you will find it hard to believe--it is my opinion that academic communities are going to measure up to this task. Signs are multiplying of a growing readiness on the part of faculty...
...clear within academic communities that revolutionaries insofar as they insist on using tactics of violence, disruption and coercion in pursuit of their goals have no rightful place, and will not be tolerated. If academic communities are to survive--or at any rate are to survive healthy and free--they must insist on this primary requirement of their existence...
...understand this latter lamentable phenomenon we must recognize and keep in mind that young people do have legitimate cause for worry and dissatisfaction. They have suddenly become acutely aware of many blemishes in American life, within universities and even more in the world outside. They cannot understand why adults in our society--their parents, you and I--do not appear to be equally concerned, nor why we have not already made substantial advances toward correcting the many abuses of which they have become conscious--such abuses as the war, poverty, blighted cities, distored values for living, an overconcern with getting...
...implications of the disturbances with which we are now confronted--how venomous and threatening they are. I would like the Committee to believe that we are seeking to understand them and to find ways to contain those relatively few individuals who are most immediately responsible. Toward this end we must enlist the cooperation of the many other young who truly want to build a better society. It is for this reason that I urge you to refrain from precipitate legislation at this time, though recognizing your desire to be helpful. Clarification is on the way. Wills and resolve are stiffening...