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...Faculty members acted to implement their own political beliefs during the political crisis that gripped Harvard. None of those acts clearly crossed the line that separates extended dissent from criminal action. To now single out a few Faculty members because their credoes led them to "unacceptable" conduct would be unjust. Any punishment the committee might recommend would certainly look like--and probably would be--suppression of political dissent...
...pledged to work in the current session of Congress for a revision of the draft, which he said is "unjust and irrational...
...that quiet struggle rises to the surface. At first, she says, Styron was immensely troubled by attacks on Nat Turner-Styron says he did not anticipate all the fuss. When it came, he had to struggle with it; perhaps there came a point when he decided his attackers were unjust and decided finally to shut himself...
...Juniors of 1834 had a different theory. They took the particular instance of the expulsion of Barnwell, and calling the incident unjust, showed that the source of the injustice was President Quincy. The statement began with a long justification of the actions of the Junior class. "It is undoubtedly the duty of those who are connected with any institution to obey its laws as long as they continue as its members," began the Junior class publication. "But when the measures of those who are at its head become such as appears to them unjustified and oppressive, if open resistance...
...mistaken but logical reaction to be upset that the University administration called outside police on campus. Everything else we are taught here fosters the myth that the University and its members should be a privileged enclave set apart from ordinary society. (It is precisely this myth that allows unjust practices such as the blithe displacement of the less well-educated people unfortunate enough to live in areas where the University wants to expand; or that makes it OK to send our guys who couldn't stomach high school to Vietnam as cannon fodder, while deferring those who were able...