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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.
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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A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.
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Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too.
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But our society - unlike most in the world - presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual, not government, the keeper of his tastes, beliefs, and ideas. That is the philosophy of the First Amendment and it is this article of faith that sets us apart from most nations in the world.
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The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.
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I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful.
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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 must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.
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We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
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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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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.
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
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The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.
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We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.
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