...object to such degradation, Brown noted that "it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it." The Court "cannot accept th[e] proposition . . . that social prejudices may be overcome by legislation."...

...does somehow impose a stamp of inferiority, "it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it." 76 Those who justify discrimination against gay, bisexual, and lesbian people on moral inferiority...

...race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it." 83 In a 1981 case, City of Memphis v. Greene,64 Justice John Paul Stevens III declared that a municipal...

...race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it. The argument necessarily assumes that if, as has been more than once the case, and 82 is not unlikely...

...race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it." organized in 1909, after rioting whites in Atlanta, Georgia, killed nearly 50 black people in three...

...a badge of inferiority," said the majority, "It is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it." This decision endorsed "separate but equal" facilities. Since most southern blacks were disenfranchised...

...race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it." Plessy v. Ferj1uson, 1 63 US 537(1 896 ) . 102 Plessy's argument rests not on a conception of the government's...

...race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it. The argument necessarily assumes that if, as has been more than once the case and is not unlikely to...

...race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it. ... Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions based upon physical...

...race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it. ... If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon...