Reform Movement Quotes

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about reform.

Experience shows that the most dangerous moment for a bad government is usually just as its starting on reform.

Some people like to reform everything they can get their hands on. Others want to fold away and worship whatever is presented to them by the caprice of history.

We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just.

To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well as Richard Wagner.

Largely, the people driving abolition did it because of what they believed from the Bible.

Calling for police reform is not calling for police retribution.

The function of a progressive is to keep on protesting until things get so bad that a reactionary demands reform.

Modernity and moderation is what we need in Egypt.

Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.

All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view: the overthrow of the ruffian Boroughmongers. If I write grammars; if I write on agriculture; if I sow, plant, or deal in seeds; whatever I do has first in view the destruction of those infamous tyrants.

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

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

I want to be at least part of the change in Congress.

Since it is one of the great attributes of our species to be susceptible of improvement and capable of experiencing the most beneficial changes, for this reason what are vulgarly called 'venerable establishments' will often range themselves in opposition to the best interests of the community.

In my experience, young people fighting for the passage of the DREAM Act and to prevent the deportation of those who are eligible are among the most committed and fearless advocates for change in this country.

We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society . . . . What America must be told today is that she must be born again. The whole structure of American life must be changed.

For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.

The Socialist movement is the abolitionist movement of the 20th century.

It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.

The first political leader of the American people to identify the national principle with an ideal of reform.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.

The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.