Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish… — Henry Billings Brown · Skopia

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Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences, and the attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the difficulties of the present situation.

Henry Billings Brown

Plessy v. Ferguson · 1896

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Brown, Henry Billings. United States, Supreme Court. Plessy v. Ferguson. United States Reports, vol. 163, 18 May 1896, pp. 537-564. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/163/537/.

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