I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.
William O. DouglasNo patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
William O. DouglasA function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it passes for acceptance of an idea.
William O. DouglasOne who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment.
William O. Douglas