# Quote — Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men

> How is it possible that today's academic Left has supported rather than protested campus speech codes as well as the grotesque surveillance and over-regulation of student life? American colleges have abandoned their educational mission and become government colonies, ruled by officious bureaucrats enforcing federal dictates. This despotic imperialism has no place in a modern democracy.

- Author: [Camille Paglia](https://www.leafyquotes.com/camille-paglia.md)
- Book: [Free Women, Free Men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/camille-paglia/free-women-free-men.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/camille-paglia/free-women-free-men/how-is-it-possible

## More from this book

> I don't want special protection for gays or transgender. I'm saying there should be protections for all dissident behavior and speech. Dissidents of every kind.

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