William O. Douglas Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring the good will that holds society together will be slowly dissipated... It is that sense of futility which permeates the present series of protests and dissents. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is violence; and that is where we are today.

  William O. Douglas

  Average, Together, Our Society

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

• Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the jury) that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

  William O. Douglas

  Yesterday, History, Democracy

  "Kingsley Books, Inc. v. Brown, 354 U.S. 436". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 24, 1957.

• We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.

  William O. Douglas

  Doe, Tactics, Today

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

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