“This University has produced enough excellence to fill a library or lead a nation . . . As one who grew up in the South, I have long admired this University for understanding that our best traditions call on us to offer that light and liberty to all. Chapel Hill has always been filled with the progressive spirit.”

-- President Bill Clinton at the University of North Carolina Bicentennial Celebration, October 12, 1993

 

Source: Steven J. Tepper. The Chronicles of the Bicentennial Observance of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill: UNC, 1998, pp. 223-224.