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"Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens."
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"The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved."
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"Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens."
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