By the same, as a repy to student protestors:
"Very well. We understand the passionate quality of your interest in contemporary affairs--the depth of you concern, the agony of your conscience. We accept your statement that you have learned more from one thing or another you have done by way of participation in the excitments of the present political scene--demonstrations, work in the ghettos and whatnot--than from all your professors and textbooks. We agree that this is all very selfless, very high-minded, very courageous. But what in the hell--if we might be so bold as to ask--are you doing on a university campus?"
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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