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The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective 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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William Orville Douglas
William Douglas
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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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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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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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Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life.
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Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
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Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.
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The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for Irish. It should be to produce good lawyers for Americans, and not to place First Amendment barriers against anyone.
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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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The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
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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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