Sean

“numerical insignificance, I was wont to console myself with what seemed to many a transcendental idea, that one man with God is a majority; that if such a man does not represent what is, he does represent what ought to be, and what ultimately will”
― Peter S. Canellos, The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero

“What’s the harm in letting him have his fling?” he remarked of one of the worst of these; “If he did not pitch into me, he would into some poor fellow he might hurt”
― Shelby Foote, The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian

“Unfettered by the Supreme Court, Jim Crow became the law of the South. When the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson was announced, there were 130,334 registered Black voters in Louisiana. Eight years later, there were only 1,342.65 “Between the two dates the literacy, property, and poll tax qualifications were adopted,” wrote historian C. Vann Woodward in his 1955 book The Strange Career of Jim Crow. “In 1896, Negro registrants were in a majority in twenty-six parishes—by 1900, in none.”66”
― Peter S. Canellos, The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero