Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by John Marshall Harlan

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American judge John Marshall Harlan.

Last updated on September 10, 2024.

John Marshall Harlan was an American lawyer and politician who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1877 until his death in 1911. He is often called "The Great Dissenter" due to his many dissents in cases that restricted civil liberties, including the Civil Rights Cases and Plessy v. Ferguson. Many of Harlan's views expressed in his notable dissents would become the official view of the Supreme Court starting from the 1950s Warren Court and onward. His grandson John Marshall Harlan II was also a Supreme Court justice.

American - Judge | June 1, 1833 - October 14, 1911

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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

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

John Marshall Harlan

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

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

The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.

John Marshall Harlan

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

John Marshall Harlan

Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.

John Marshall Harlan

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by John Marshall Harlan

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