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.
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.
-- Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911)
-- [Sole dissent, Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896)]