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    John Marshall Harlan

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    [O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric. ↗


    — John Marshall Harlan

    #lyrics #vulgarity #censorship

    But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. ↗


    — John Marshall Harlan

    #citizens #class #constitution #country #dominant

    The humblest is the peer of the most powerful. ↗


    — John Marshall Harlan

    #most #most powerful #peer #powerful

    Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. ↗


    — John Marshall Harlan

    #citizens #classes #constitution #knows #neither

    The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements. ↗


    — John Marshall Harlan

    #body #constitution #court #every #general

    The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved. ↗


    — John Marshall Harlan

    #civil #civil rights #color #guaranteed #his






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    And so it is in prestige in achievements in education in wealth and in power. This is about the pre-World-War-I US Supreme Court justice; for his grandson the mid-20th century holder of the same position see John Marshall Harlan II. Harris (1903) a case challenging the use of grandfather clauses to restrict voting rolls and de facto exclude blacks.

    He is most notable as the lone dissenter in the Civil Rights Cases (1883) and Plessy v. These dissents among others led to his nickname "the Great Dissenter. Ferguson (1896) which respectively struck down as unconstitutional federal anti-discrimination legislation and upheld Southern segregation statutes.

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