Friday, May 6, 2022

Need to Guard Against Gradual Oppression

As nightfall does not come 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 the change in the air—however sight—lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.

William O. Douglas, The Douglas Letters, p. 162 (Melvin Urofsky ed., 1987) (Sept. 10, 1976, letter to Young Lawyers Section of Washington State Bar Association)

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