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Caught In The Campus Crossfire

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Even the press, the classroom, the platform, and the pulpit in many instances do not give us objective and unbiased truths. To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction. The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.

—Martin Luther King
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.

—Martin Niemöller (edited down for brevity)

You are entitled to your opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.

—Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor, Ambassador to the U.N., and then U.S. Senator

Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.

—Golda Meir

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

—Attributed to various people.

In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.

—David Ben Gurion, Israel’s first President.

From Characters Tony Silvestri, Michael Levine and Judge Williams in Novel

  • You can’t change the current or the wind. So, adjust the sails and head toward a friendlier port. Turn the issue, not the attitude, around.
  • If credibility is currency, you don't want to be overdrawn; you should have savings.
  • Ideology trumps fact. And the more ideology is repeated, the more it becomes fact regardless of empirical evidence to the contrary.
  • The difference between God and a doctor? God doesn’t think he’s a doctor.
  • Just as you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink, so, too, you can teach butnot make one think.
  • Cancel culture and the compulsion to condemn discourage discourse.
  • Defense counsel is among those ninety percent of lawyers that give the other ten percent a bad name.
  • Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and tripped over.
  • I decided early in my life that if you paid me a dollar to do something, I was going to give you two dollars of effort back.
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