“The right to speak my mind out, that's America ... 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 Cornell faculty and students live in fear. If they hold the wrong view, university leadership gives no support and mob justice may be unleashed against them. ”

“Professors, staff members and students are strongly discouraged from entertaining certain topics even privately, much less discussing them publicly on campus.”

“Students ... cannot say things in their classes. This is what is so remarkably depressing about Cornell...You are in an environment that discourages dissent.”

“The demise of viewpoint and academic freedom at Cornell may be broken beyond repair. If universities like Cornell cannot be reformed, building new universities may be the only course left for America.”

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

“Differences should be what the university is most about – not just differences in how people look, but in how people think.”

“99.5% of Cornell Faculty, Academics’ Donations Given to Left-Leaning Groups.”

“Cornell's commitment (to free speech) feels more perfunctory than real... The faculty know that the university doesn't really back you up.”

“(Cancel Culture) is a striking illustration of the threat woke ideology poses to our freedoms....We need to confront totalitarianism before it causes disaster -- while it is still possible to do so. ”

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

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

“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. ”

“Cornell leadership fails to protect free speech. Denouncing a professor while taking no action and citing job protection tells faculty and students lacking such protection that they are at risk. This is how ideological conformity is imposed on campus.”

“The most untrained eye can observe that ….. the university continues to endorse an abhorrent lack of (viewpoint) diversity.”

“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 current situation at Cornell is alarming. A repressive monoculture which creates fear now dominates the campus. Alumni must help bring the university back to balance.”

“There are a million examples of (Cornell University) actions that contribute to the (repressive) culture...The fear on campus is an effective deterrent (to free speech).”

“(University policy) seeks to increase the representation of some groups through discrimination against other groups ... (which) rises to the level of excluding applicants from certain groups.”

“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. ”

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