Who said that "Without equal access to the law, the system not only robs the poor of their only protection, but it places in the hands of their oppressors the most powerful and ruthless weapon even invented" ?

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Reinald Heber Smith

Reinald Heber Smith in his 1919 book, Justice and the Poor, promoted for the first time, the concept of free legal assistance for the poor. Smith challenged the legal profession to consider it an obligation to make sure that justice was accessible to all, without regard to the ability to pay. "Without equal access to the law", he wrote, "the system not only robs the poor of their only protection, but it places in the hands of their oppressors the most powerful and ruthless weapon even invented"