...undercut his own argument by ending the paragraph in which those words occurred with the assertion that "If one race be inferior to the other socially, the...of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane."47* In his most famous dissent, the first Justice John Marshall Harlan scornfully answered Brown:...

...powerless to eradicate racial instincts, or to abolish distinctions based on physical differences. ... If one race be inferior to the other socially, the constitution of the United States cannot put them on the same plane."10 Justice Brown of Massachusetts had no faith that the constitution could guarantee...

...to abolish distinction based upon physical differences, and the attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the difficulties of the present situation....equal, one cannot be inferior to the other civilly and politically. If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States...

...brilliantly. By 1896, the Supreme Court, upholding the segregated seating of rail travelers, pronounced: "If one race be inferior to the other socially, the...United States cannot put them upon the same plane." A few years later President Theodore Roosevelt himself opined, "A perfectly stupid race can never rise...

...RALPH WALDO EMERSON, FROM HIS BOOK SELF-RELIANCE (1839) The city is the teacher of the man. SlMONIDES If one race be inferior to the other socially, the...United States cannot put them upon the same plane. — HENRY BILLINGS BROWN Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education....

...that a badge of inferiority would be placed on Blacks segregated from the general population, stating: "If one race be inferior to the other socially, the...of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane."85 Every aspect of American life was affected by this ruling. The state was given the power...

...overcome by legislation," but that was false. Laws are "powerless to eradicate racial instincts ____ If one race be inferior to the other socially, the...United States cannot put them upon the same plane." As in the Civil Rights Cases, Justice Harlan was the only dissenter. tf> MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, dissenting...

...decision in Plessy v. Ferguson that constitutionally validated Jim Crow been forgotten? "If one race is inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of...United States cannot put them upon the same plane" (Cecil 1990, 64). American blacks struggled valiantly to dismantle Jim Crow, but, as black-power activists...