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I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.
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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Trade Unionist
University Teacher
William Orville Douglas
William Douglas
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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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The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen - a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a life.
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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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The rules when the giants play are the same as when the pygmies enter the market.
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The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
William O. Douglas
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.
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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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Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
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Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.
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The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.
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My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.
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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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When a man knows how to live amid danger, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live.
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We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
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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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The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars.
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Violence has no constitutional sanction and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.
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Political controls in the sense that we think of bureaus or departments of government can never ope to produce collaboration between groups in the inner wheels of our industrial organization. It must come from inner compulsions and desires.
William O. Douglas
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
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