Felix Frankfurter Quotes
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
Felix Frankfurter, 1882-1965, U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Concurring Opinion, Dennis v. United States, 339 U.S. 162, 184, 1950
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60 years later George Orwell would use the last line in his famous Animal Farm --- See {625338} .
Jackson was a great champion of equality and equal rights, but for whites only. He had no problem with Negro Slavery and had a major bias against Indians. He was the only U. S President to refuse to obey a decision of the Supreme Court when he forced the removal of the Cherokee Indians from their lands and forced them to the Oklahoma Territory.
He would not allow himself to be buried in a cemetery that would not allow Blacks. He was laid to rest in Shreiner's Cemetery, one of the very few racially integrated cemeteries at the time.
Felix Frankfurter was an American lawyer, professor, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Frankfurter served on the Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962 and was a noted advocate of judicial restraint in the judgments of the Court.
