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Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.
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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What a man thinks is no concern of the government.
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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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Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.
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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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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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The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
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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 liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.
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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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Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
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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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The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
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Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy.
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The rules when the giants play are the same as when the pygmies enter the market.
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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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My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.
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