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William O. Douglas

William O. Douglas

William Orville Douglas (October 16, 1898 - January 19, 1980) was a United States Supreme Court Associate Justice. With a term lasting 36 years and 209 days, he is the longest-serving justice in the history of the Supreme Court

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Espiral Maior Poesía 1994

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This means we must subject the machinetechnologyto control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money. 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 machineand the vast bureaucracy of the corporation state and of government that runs that machinethe servant of man. That is the revolution that is coming. That revolutionnow that the people hold the residual powers of governmentneed not be a repetition of 1776. 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.
Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor.
Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman. 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.
Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.
We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.
The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
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.
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. Realization of this need means adults must awaken to the urgency of the young peoples unrestin other words there must be created an adult unrest against the inequities and injustices in the present system. 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.
Ive 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.
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.
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas in San Diego 1966
Rep, Ford considering case for impeachment of Justice Douglas
What's My Line? - Justice William O Douglas; Mary Healy; Peter Lind Hayes [panel] (May 6, 1956)
William O. Douglas Bust
From the Archives 95: William O. Douglas on Conformity (1964)
David Ginsburg (2005) on Justice William O. Douglas
Top 10 Supreme Court Justices in American History
Beach Hike (Louis Huber, 1958, MI# 04395.)
Liberty & Wilderness: William O. Douglas Film Project Trailer
Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas
William O. Douglas speaking at UCLA 12/16/1964
Hon. M. Margaret McKeown: The Environmental Legacy of Justice William O. Douglas
Dedication to late U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
Marshall Small (2007) on William O. Douglas
Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas
The Bankruptcy Jurisprudence of Justice William O Douglas
Justice William O. Douglas: Public Advocate and Conservation Champion
The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas
Secretary Clinton Delivers a Video Message for the William O. Douglas Award Presented to Elie Wiesel
2019 William O. Douglas Award Dinner Sizzle Real
Elie Wiesel Accepts Public Counsel's 2012 William O. Douglas Award
Backpacking the William O. Douglas Wilderness: Richmond Mine Trail, Thunder Creek, and Mt. Baldy
47 - “The Footpaths of Justice William O. Douglas” with Tom Hulst
Robert Seddig (2014) on William O. Douglas
William O. Douglas || life, Work & Career || 🎯 Kvs Exam || Pgt English ||
Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas— Public Advocate and Conservation
Preserving History through Exploration: Justice Douglas' Encounter with the Washington Post
Citizen Justice The Environmental Legacy of William O Douglas
Mike Farrell Accepts Public Counsel's 2018 William O. Douglas Award
2007 William O. Douglas Dinner Highlights
Does the Supreme Court have any role…
Bill Oliver — "William O. Douglas" — Threadgill's World HQ
Public Counsel's 2022 William O Douglas Award Dinner - Complete Program Video
From the Archives 1: William O. Douglas, The Bible and the Schools
O SEGREDO DE WILLIAM DOUGLAS REVELADO! (O GURU DOS CONCURSOS)
Which Supreme Court Justice has had…
Justice Douglas, what is the function…
The Deep Water by William O' Douglas
William O. Douglas Centennial Conference
McKeown on the Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas
Happy Birthday to American Jurist William O. Douglas🎂
September Serenity (in the William O Douglas Wilderness)
Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas | Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick |...
Jay Leno hosts William O. Douglas Dinner
View from top of Tumac Mountain in the William O Douglas Wilderness (WA State)
Exploring the WIlliam O Douglas Wilderness
Bill Oliver: “William O Douglas, Man of The Court”
Norse Peaks, William O' Douglas Wilderness 2023
William O Douglas Wilderness
President Bill Clinton's Greeting Message at Public Counsel's 2010 William O. Douglas Dinner

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