John Marshall Harlan Quotes

The sure guaranty of the peace and security of each race is the clear, distinct, unconditional recog...

Sixty millions of whites are in no danger from the presence here of eight millions of blacks. The de...

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

But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, domina...

John Marshall Harlan

American lawyer

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John Marshall Harlan (1 June 1833 – 14 October 1911) was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court. He is most notable as the lone dissenter in the Civil Rights Cases (1883), and Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which, respectively, struck down as unconstitutional federal anti-discrimination legislation and upheld Southern segregation statutes. These dissents, among others, led to his nickname, "the Great Dissenter." He was the grandfather of John Marshall Harlan II.More