We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. |
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. . . . We find no such Constitutional requirement which makes it necessary for government to be hostile to religion and to throw its weight against efforts to widen the effective scope of religious influence. . . . The First Amendment does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of church and state. |
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. |
We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system. |
We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. |
We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and make him a servile thing in a vast industrial complex. . . . This means we must subject the machine -- technology -- to control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money. |
We look to the heavens for help and uplift, but it is to the earth we are chained; it is from the earth that we must find our sustenance; it is on the earth that we must find solutions to the problems that promise to destroy all life here. |
We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet. |
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all. |
Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together? |