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Letter "W" » William Orville Douglas Quotes
«The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgment the great postulate of our democracy.»
«Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
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doctrines, religious belief, religious beliefs, religious doctrine
«The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
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against the rules, bombs, dedicated, dissent, extremes, extreme poverty, gases, protest, reaffirmation, regime, submissive
«If the government is in jeopardy, it is not because we are unable to cope with revolutionary situations. Jeopardy means that either the leaders or the people do not realize they have all the tools required to make the revolution come true. The tools and the opportunity exist. Only the moral imagination is missing.»
«We look to the heavens for help and uplift, but it is to the earth we are chained; it is from the earth that we must find our sustenance; it is on the earth that we must find solutions to the problems that promise to destroy all life here.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
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chained, heavens, look to, solutions, sustenance, uplift, uplifted, uplifting, uplifts
«The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.»
«The idea of using censors to bar thoughts of sex is dangerous. A person without sex thoughts is abnormal.»
«As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.»
«Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.»
«We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.»
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