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The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
William O. Douglas
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William O. Douglas
Age: 81 †
Born: 1898
Born: October 16
Died: 1980
Died: January 19
Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
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William Orville Douglas
William Douglas
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No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper, and deliver his sermon without asking anyone's permission. The contrary suggestion is abhorrent to our traditions.
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Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.
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The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.
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I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful.
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Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.
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There is no superior person by constitutional standards. An applicant who is white is entitled to no advantage by reason of that fact, nor is he subject to any disability, no matter what his race or color. Whatever his race, an applicant has a constitutional right to have his application considered on its individual merits.
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Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
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We need be bold and adventuresome in our thinking in order to survive.
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A reporter is no better than his source of information.
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The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.
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Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support the greater it curtails human freedom.
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My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.
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Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?
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Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the military-industrial-complex, but not that type of socialism which maintains public projects for the disemployed and the unemployed alike.
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It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
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