...racial instincts or ... physical differences," he argued that such attempts only make matters worse. "If the civil and political rights of both races be equal, one cannot be inferior to the other. ... If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution . . . cannot put them upon the...

...affinities, a mutual appreciation of each other's merits and a voluntary consent of individuals. . . . Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts...abolish distinctions based upon physical differences and to attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the difficulties of the present situation. . ....

...be brought into contact do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race to the other. . . . Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts...abolish distinctions based upon physical differences. ... If the civil and political rights of both races be equal, one cannot be inferior to the other civilly...

...proscribing the commingling of the races. "Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts . . . and the attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the difficulties of the present situation," the Court explained.2 It therefore concluded that, although the law required blacks' political equality,...

...that equal rights could not be secured "by an enforced commingling of the two races," and said that legislation "is powerless to eradicate racial instincts,...abolish distinctions based upon physical differences." All this sociological speculation may or may not be correct, but it is quite irrelevant to a constitutional...

...was organized, and performed all the functions respecting social advantages with which it is endowed. Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts...abolish distinctions based upon physical differences. If the civil and political rights of both races be equal, one cannot be inferior to the other civilly...

...that social prejudices may be overcome by legislation." Nature itself ordained racial difference, and "legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts...abolish distinctions based upon physical differences." Plessys hint that the states could extend Jim Crow to education was borne out in Berea College v. Kentucky...

...rights of the minority. Reflecting the racial attitudes of his day, Justice Brown went on to argue that "legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts...abolish distinctions based upon physical differences. ... If the civil and political rights of both races be equal one cannot be inferior to the other civilly...

...voluntary consent of individuals." Law, the Plessy court wrote, could not reform nature: legislation was "powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences." Any attempt to use law to do so would "only result in accentuating the difficulties of the present...

...affinities, a mutual appreciation of each other's merits and a voluntary consent of individuals. ... Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions based upon racial differences, and the attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the difficulties of the...