William O. Douglas cytaty

William Orville Douglas – amerykański prawnik. W 1939 roku został mianowany przez prezydenta Stanów Zjednoczonych, Franklina Delano Roosevelta, sędzią Sądu Najwyższego Stanów Zjednoczonych. Stanowisko to piastował przez ponad 36 lat do 1975 roku, najdłużej ze wszystkich sędziów Sądu Najwyższego. Zmarł 19 stycznia 1980 roku w Waszyngtonie i został pochowany na Narodowym Cmentarzu w Arlington.

Poza działalnością prawniczą Douglas angażował się również w związaną z ekologią i ochroną środowiska naturalnego. Między innymi dzięki jego staraniom utworzono Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. W 1977 roku park oficjalnie nazwano jego imieniem. W 1962 roku napisał pozytywną opinię na temat książki Silent Spring autorstwa Rachel Carson, przyczyniając się w ten sposób do jej popularyzacji i rozwoju globalnego ruchu ekologicznego. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Październik 1898 – 19. Styczeń 1980
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“As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air — however slight — lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.”

Letter to Young Lawyers Section of the Washington State Bar Association (10 September 1976), The Douglas Letters : Selections from the Private Papers of Justice William O. Douglas (1987), edited by Melvin I. Urofsky and Philip E. Urofsky, p. 162
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“The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.”

A Living Bill of Rights (1961), p. 64
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“One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment, Potter.”

Statement to Justice Potter Stewart on the arrest of peacefully protesting Vietnam War veterans on steps of the Supreme Court, in The Court Years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas‎ (1981), p. 234
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“The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.”

An Almanac of Liberty (1954), p. 107
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“Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.”

United States v. Ballard, 322 U.S. 78 (1944)
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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.”

"The One Un-American Act," Speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York, on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award (December 3, 1952) http://ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/foryoungpeople/theoneunamerican/oneunamerican.cfm
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“Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.”

Dissenting, Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476 (1957)
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“The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.”

Dissenting, Ullmann v. United States, 350 U.S. 422 (1956)
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“All executive power – from the reign of ancient kings to the rule of modern dictators – has the outward appearance of efficiency.”

Concurring, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952)
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“The Constitution favors no racial group, no political or social group.”

Dissenting, Uphaus v. Wyman, 364 U.S. 388, 406 (1960)
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“The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.”

Interview with Time magazine (12 November 1973)
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“We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.”

Writing for the court, Zorach v. Clauson, 343 U.S. 306 (1952)
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“Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.”

Dissenting, United States v. Wunderlich, 342 U.S. 98, 101 (1951)
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“Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.”

The Court Years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas (1980), p. 232
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“The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.”

Dissenting, Public utilities Commission v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952)
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“The rules when the giants play are the same as when the pygmies enter the market.”

Dissenting, Scherk v. Alberto-Culver Co., 417 U.S. 506, 526 (1974)
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“I've often thought that if our zoning boards could be put in charge of botanists, of zoologists and geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.”

Remarks at conference sponsored by the American Histadrut Cultural Exchange Institute, Harriman, New York (February 17–19, 1967); reported in Judd L. Teller, ed., Government and the Democratic Process; A Symposium by American and Israeli Experts (1969), p. 16
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“That seems to us to be the common sense of the matter; and common sense often makes good law.”

Writing for the court, Peak v. United States, 353 U.S. 43 (1957)
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“It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.”

The Court years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas‎ (1980), p. 3
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“The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.”

Mike Wallace interview (4 November 1958), quoted in The Great Quotations (1966) by George Seldes
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