“On the other hand, no mature person will be content to sit
by the side of the road and watch the world go by. One cannot be merely a
bystander, doing nothing but criticize. When a human being finds a dead end, it
is tempting to turn to that last desperate resource of muddled humankind:
lawlessness. People do not realize the unprofitableness in delinquency and the
low standard of living to which it condemns them. They may even imagine
themselves as martyrs in some trivial or irrelevant cause. This hooliganism brings discredit to the peaceful, legitimate, and
often courageous protests by young people on great moral issues. Society is
indulgent toward young people, but there are limits to permissibility. Youth is
right to repudiate sham and hypocrisy, but to assume that disorder and chaos
have merit in themselves is to assume that we are no longer capable of
reasoning together in search of the right solution of problems” An
Eternal Quest-- Freedom of the Mind Hugh
B. Brown Excerpted from an address given to the BYU student body on May 13,
1969
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