Login | Register Share:
  Guess quote | Authors | Isles | Contacts

John Marshall Harlan [1833-1911] American
Rank: 108
Judge, Former Attorney General of Kentucky


John Marshall Harlan was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.


QuoteTagsRank
Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
101
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.
102
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.
103
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.
104
The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.
105

The script ran 0.006 seconds.