Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.
William O. DouglasThe free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.
William O. DouglasMan must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life.
William O. DouglasThe First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rathe, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other.
William O. Douglas