As Douglas said in _Lerner_ v. _Casey_ (357 U. S. 468), the liberties guaranteed to the citizen by the First and Fourteenth amendments include “the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from his neighbor, the right to pick and choose the political philosophy that he likes best, the right to associate with whomever he chooses, the right to join the groups he prefers, the privilege of selecting his own path to salvation.” And in a case upholding the right of Negroes to associate, Mr. Justice Harlan expressed for the court the same view that white parents take in forming a private school for their children: “It is beyond debate that freedom to engage in association for the advancement of beliefs and ideas is an inseparable aspect of the ‘liberty’ assured by the Fourteenth Amendment.” (_NAACP_ v. _Alabama_, 357 U. S. 449.) The high court’s opinion in the _School Segregation Cases_ did nothing to interfere with these basic concepts of individual freedom of action in areas of education. It is important to understand, the Fourth U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals has said, “exactly what the Supreme Court has decided [in _Brown_] and what it has not decided in this case”: It has not decided that the Federal courts are to take over or regulate the public schools of the States. It has not decided that the States must mix persons of different races in the schools or must require them to attend schools, or must deprive them of the right of choosing the schools they attend. What it has decided, and all that it has decided, is that a State may not deny to any person on account of race the right to attend any school that it maintains. This, under the decision of the Supreme Court, the State may not do directly or indirectly; but if the schools which it maintains are open to children of all races, no violation of the Constitution is involved even though the children of different races voluntarily attend different schools, as they attend different churches. Nothing in the Constitution or in the decision of the Supreme Court takes away from the people the freedom to choose the schools they attend. The Constitution, in other words, does not require integration. It merely forbids discrimination. It does not forbid such segregation as the result of voluntary action. It merely forbids the use of governmental power to enforce segregation. The Fourteenth Amendment is a limitation upon the exercise of power by the state or State agencies, not a limitation upon the freedom of individuals.