#reformer

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor. ↗

— Derrick A. Bell

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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#courageous #defies #government #man #more

And I think Governor Romney has a shot if the 'R' next to his name doesn't just stand for 'Republican,' it stands for 'reformer.' ↗

— Scott Walker

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In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist.It seemed to him that the glow of happiness must ne found either in action, of some immensely solid kind,on behalf of an idea, or in producing a masterpiece in one of the arts. ↗

— Henry James

#grand-designs #purpose-of-life #reformer #art

Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them. ↗

— Thomas Frank

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It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

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Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy. ↗

— Jerry Rubin

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King Abdullah is a reformer. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#reformer

The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased. ↗

— Charles Hodge

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