Speaking Back to the Speaker Ban: Oral History Practice And Free Speech Activism

Because the simple fact

Because the simple fact of the matter is, and you can see this, every generation, whether they’re a generation of students going through, you know, the population goes in four years, there’ll be no one on campus who knows who the hell you are, you know, that’s just the nature of it. Birds of passage, everyone’s a bird of passage. So they all end up in reinventing the wheel in different times, reinventing the wheel. And they all have to understand what these things mean for themselves. But getting the public as a whole, even the educated public, to understand and think in a deeper sense about what freedom of speech means and how it functions in practice, is extremely difficult.

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