“The right to speak my mind out, that's America to me -- the right to think, speak and write as we believe without fear that Big Brother will retaliate against us because we don't tow the party line.”

“Today, many faculty members, students, and staff live in a state of fear at Cornell. If they hold the wrong view, mob justice on campus may be unleashed against them. ”

“Cornell leadership has failed to stand strong in recent free speech controversies. Denouncing a professor while asserting that no disciplinary action will be taken due to job protection tells students, staff and faculty lacking such protection that they are at risk. This further imposes ideological conformity on campus.”

“We are actively discouraged … from engaging in intellectual discussion in favor of regurgitating talking points that professors give us.”

“Undergrads are exposed to less viewpoint diversity than ever before in the history of this country... This is a very rapid change which has profound consequences for everything that happens at the university. ”

“Cornell … will not benefit if it becomes known as a place that is hostile to academic freedom.”

“Faculty viewpoint conformity contributes to a campus culture hostile to free expression. Viewpoint diversity should be embedded in the hiring process just as the university embeds other forms of diversity.”

“(The University monoculture) treats unorthodox opinions as a heresy that must be punished...rather than as ideas to be evaluated and debated.”

“What we are seeing on campus….is the idea that shaming people and shutting them down is somehow OK when espousing a leftist agenda.”

“Cornell's monoculture distorts research. The study of American poverty is directly impeded. Only certain causes and solutions are "acceptable" avenues of study -- others are not. Free academic inquiry is shut down. ”

“Once victimhood culture gets onto campus …and gets into the teaching, students are literally taught to see people as good or bad…This means there is eternal conflict and grievance. ”

“Conformity of opinion … stifles not only speech, but thought…Scholars are afraid even to consider different ideas for fear they will run afoul of norms of thinking.”

“The current situation at Cornell is alarming. The fear felt by faculty and students is palpable. With a repressive monoculture now dominating the campus, alumni appear to be the last best chance for the university to be brought back to balance.”

“The lack of ideological debate on this campus is extremely harmful to students.”

“We are seeing the rise of a particular subgroup (on campus)… They’ve adopted a way that is vindictive….It’s about calling people out. People are afraid of them.”

“There is no way to explain away the transparent contradictions between the university’s diversity policy and its supposed commitment to a competition of ideas.”

“Woke ideology is totalitarian in nature. It attempts to corral the entirety of human existence into one narrow ideological viewpoint and to silence anyone who disagrees. ”

“Many Cornellians are scared to challenge the progressive status quo and speak in opposition to those pushing ideological conformity.”

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.”