Radicalism Quotes

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Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be a graver menace… — Frank I. Cobb
Certainly these are not easy times. But history does not contain very many easy times. Years from now, we will look back at this moment--when… — Laura Ingraham
RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day. — Ambrose Bierce
Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and… — Powell Clayton
Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that… — Paul Krugman
Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle, and bored; where… — Lawrence Wright
True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. — Saul Alinsky
We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated… — Richard T. Ely
So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and cogent leftists at… — Kenny Smith
Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy. — Eric Hoffer
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. — Mark Twain
We need our radicals. — Eleanor Roosevelt
You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone… — E L Doctorow
In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army,… — Marisha Pessl
It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make… — Stephanie Mills
American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get… — Marcus Garvey
Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and… — Feisal Abdul Rauf

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