In respect of civil rights, common to all citizens

In respect of civil rights, common to all citizens
"In respect of civil rights, common to all citizens, the Constitution of the United States does not, I think, permit any public authority to know the race of those entitled to be protected in the enjoyment of such rights."—Justice John M. Harlan, dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson

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