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The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property.
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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I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful.
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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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Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the First Amendment draws no distinction between the various methods of communicating ideas.
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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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The conscience of this nation is the Constitution.
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Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.
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Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
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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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The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom.
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I think that the influence towards suppression of minority views - towards orthodoxy in thinking about public issues - has been more subconscious than unconscious, stemming to a very great extent from the tendency of Americans to conform...not to deviate or depart from an orthodox point of view.
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Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.
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There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator.
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Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.
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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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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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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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To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.
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