- Thurgood Marshall: The Constitution was not written for us. We know that. But no matter what it takes, we're going to make it work for us. From now on, we claim it as our own.
- Sam Friedman: You just travel around the country on this crusade? Putting out fires in Mississippi, Oklahoma, Bridgeport?
- Thurgood Marshall: It's not really the fires I'm after, Sam. It's fire itself.