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We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.
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
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The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.
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Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ... the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from his neighbor, the right to pick and choose the political philosophy he likes best, the right to associate with whomever he chooses, the right to join groups he prefers.
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The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.
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We need be bold and adventuresome in our thinking in order to survive.
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If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with compelling reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordion-like quality.
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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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Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
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Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.
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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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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
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Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
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I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.
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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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The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
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Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.
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Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.
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The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.
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One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment.
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I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.
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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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