Quote by Thurgood Marshall
"The function of the lawyer is to preserve the system. But the system itself may need to be changed. That's the function of the political activist."
More from Thurgood Marshall
"Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
"None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps."
"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch."
"Real effective civilized leadership is taking everybody's situation into account."