Excerpt from "The Port Huron Statement," 1962
Originally published as The Port Huron Statement, New York, 1964. Reprinted from "Takin' It to the Streets:" A Sixties Reader, 2003. Also available online at The Sixties Project: Primary Document Archive, http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixti es/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manifest os/SDS_Port_Huron.html.

Complete text of "The Sharon Statement," 1960
Originally published in National Review, September 24, 1960, pp. 172-173. Reprinted from "Takin' It to the Streets:" A Sixties Reader, 2003. Also available online at www.yaf.com/sharon.html.

"We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit."

College students had never played a very large role in American politics before the 1960s. First, there were not many of them...