Belva Lockwood Quotes
Reforms are slow, but they never go backward.
Lockwood, Belva A. "My Efforts to Become a Lawyer." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, vol. 41, J. B. Lippincott Company, Feb. 1888, pp. 215-230.
1st Baron Macaulay. FDR used the latter part of the quotation in a speech to the Democratic State Convention, Syracuse, NY, September 29, 1936.
The inventor of the Chi Square and Correlation Coefficient statistical methods. The lecture was also published as a political pamphlet. Pearson criticized the English Socialists who were calling for substantial immediate reforms on many fronts. Many of the reforms had much general support and the major political issue was the pace of reform.
One of Ferguson’s theses is that historical change often happens very rapidly.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
This statement is very revealing in that it illustrates the attitude of the establishment of most developing nations. Traditional change is OK as long as it is not does transformational—ie as long as it does not make any meaningful changes. But modernization requires transformational change; without it there is no major reform and all institutions and power structures remain in their positions.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Interestingly he was known as a reformer and his critics suggested that he reformed too fast.
Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood was an American attorney, politician, educator, and author. She was active in working for women's rights, including women's suffrage. Lockwood overcame many social and personal obstacles related to gender restrictions. After college, she became a teacher and principal, working to equalize pay for women in education. She supported the movement for world peace, and was a proponent of the Temperance movement.
