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This is not a similar circumstance. The anti-Gallo point of view has been fully aired and his widely known. One pamphlet hardly seems an equivalent representation of the pro-Gallo side. Gallo has not asked that it be allowed to have a speaker on campus or to picket the headquarters of any of the organizations opposing...
...shrug this off with a cynical, "Well, the Gallo pamphlet was probably a pack of lies," or an, "After all, the leftists are right, so it's OK if they don't let Gallo be heard?" If the right to be heard has come to be dependent on any one group's assessment of the truth, free speech is dead. Our radical organizations may be correct today; if they are wrong tomorrow, how shall we let it be known? And if those on the far right manage to keep us from speaking tomorrow, how shall we of the left appeal...
...example, most people believe America's farmworkers are migrants, following harvests from state to state. Chavez and his supporters have continually repeated this to the public. "Most farmworkers are members of families who scrape together marginal livings by following the crops around the U.S.," reads a pamphlet distributed by Chavez boycott organizers in Phoenix...
...WONDER what would happen if Percy Bysshe Shelley attended Harvard. Would he, as he did at Oxford, send to all professors copies of a pamphlet he wrote entitled "The Necessity of Atheism?" Would he begin the task, as he did in Ireland, of world reformation by organizing a "society of peace and love?" Would he distribute, as he did in Wales, a "Declaration of Rights" by sending up balloons and by enclosing it in bottles he cast into...
...Harvard, where he became one of the nation's most celebrated quarterbacks, at Harvard Business School, and on Wall Street as an investment banker. He finally returned home in 1972. He was not even aware of the residency requirement until his wife Mollie came across it in a pamphlet put out by the League of Women Voters...