that is a paraphrasing of tourgee's argument to him in his brief.hts activist in the '50s looked back to that brief, the dissent in the plessy case as one of the documents when they challenged the legality of the segregation. and the supreme court in brown v. board of education, they look back to that as well. that case explicitly says the decision in plessy was wrong and must be overturned. and very few times in american history that one supreme court will look back and say a previous supreme court decision was outright wrong. at the end of his life he said all i have done has been a waste, it's all you know, been for nothing. we are in the worst place we've ever been. much worse than under slavery. so he felt the world was heading in a terrible direction instead of more equality and people being judged not on things like the color of their skin, the society was becoming more based on those things. so yeah personally i can see the longer road and i can see that those ideals that he had didn't die out. when he reached the end of his life they were i