Free Speech Victory for Emma Goldman: Public rallies for dead activist's right to be heard.

From: The Hunter Envoy | Date: February 5, 2003| Author: Anonymous | Copyright information

About 90 years after she first uttered them, activist Emma Goldman's words again shook up fear and hope across the country. Last month, associate Vice Chancellor Robert M. Price of the University of California at Berkeley eliminated two of three Goldman quotes from a fundraising letter for the Emma Goldman Papers.

The administration of the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement deemed a 1902 Goldman quote warning about the dangers of losing freedom of expression "too political" for the...

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