Among the wise and high-minded people who in…

The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

— Theodore Roosevelt

We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic questions about…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I don't think polarization is some kind of grand distraction. It's real. People have different commitments, believe in different things and principles, different visions…

— Chris Hayes

The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought…

— John Marshall Harlan

Scaling back the campaign finance reform bill may get more Republicans aboard, but it leaves many of us who have been involved in the…

— Robert Torricelli

“In every revival of truth, the pendulum tendency to extremes finds abundant illustration. All reform movements, including the present one, are characterized by "a…

— Desmond Ford

Although the church has often been far too slow to follow his lead, Jesus' insistence that women, as well as men, bear the full…

— John Ortberg

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

— Carl Bernstein

What is needed is a move beyond tradition, nothing less than a reform movement to bring the core concepts of Islam into the modern…

— Salman Rushdie

If you look at the way all of the new reform movements dedicated to the public interest are living and thriving on the Internet,…

— Al Gore

Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place,…

— Frank Carlucci

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are…

— Andrew Greeley

Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history, which shows…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of…

— Kenneth Frampton