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Letter "W" » William Orville Douglas Quotes
«The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] 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 [person's] life.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
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«There are only two choices: A police state in which all dissent is suppressed or rigidly controlled; or a society where law is responsive to human needs. If society is to be responsive to human needs, a vast restructuring of our laws is essential.»
Author: William Orville 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.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
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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.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
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academic, academic freedom, aspect, continuous, dialogue, horizon| Occasions:
Graduation
«A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
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civil liberties, civil liberty, dictatorship, extend, groups, liberties, preferred, the left
«In the East the wilderness has no evil connotation; it is thought of as an expression of the unity and harmony of the universe.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
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connotation, East, The East, the Wilderness, unity, wilderness
«The search of the young today is more specific than the ancient search for the Holy Grail. The search of the youth today is for ways and means to make the machine -- and the vast bureaucracy of the corporation state and of government that runs that machine -- the servant of man. . . . That is the revolution that is coming. . . . It could be a revolution in the nature of an explosive political regeneration. It depends on how wise the Establishment is. If, with its stockpile of arms, it resolves to suppress the dissenters, America will face, I fear, an awful ordeal.»
«One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees. . . . The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
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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.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
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Bill of Rights, party system, political parties, political system, right of privacy, school system
«I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly be a horsefly or a bird of paradise or a deer. So a man of such faith, looking at animals, might be looking at old friends or ancestors.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
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