Jean Chretien Quotes

Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.

For every social wrong there must be a remedy.

There are two sides to reconciliation; the law aspect and the moral values. Unless there is improvement for both, changes will not come by easily

I am unapologetic about the need for social change, greater inclusion, and equity.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

You can't find your way to social reform through the forces that made social reform necessary.

Reform starts here.

We must liberate our concepts of justice, our laws and legal institutions from the bonds which hold a tight grip on us although they are incompatible with the needs of our century.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, it carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

My retirement will make no difference in [the newspaper’s] cardinal principles, that it will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty.

An idea consisting of a social crime in one age becomes the very religion of humanity in the next

The reformer does not want to move left; he wants to move forward.

I am a friend to the reformation generally of whatever can be made better

Edinburgh, Scotland went from a narrow, theocratic, awful society to the intellectuality and free thinking Great Enlightenment in only 100 years.

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

Progress does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability.

The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .

It's time for America to get right.

What's more important is that we talk about movements; change happens through movements. The movement to end slavery, the movement to bring justice for those who have been left out of the system, movements to include women, movements around sexual preference - all these movements brought about change.

Canada must be progressive, and Canada must be a just society.

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.