Agitation Quote by Ernestine Rose

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

— Lydia M. Child

Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object…

— Thomas Jefferson

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

— George Edward Woodberry

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too…

— Doris Lessing

“Acknowledging that we are all churned up is the first and most difficult step in any practice. Without compassionate recognition that we are stuck,…

— Pema Chodron

It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I.

— Henry David Thoreau

Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of…

— Henry George

What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if those hearts…

— Tim DeChristopher

Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils prove futile.

— Marcelo H. del Pilar

“Revolutionary or reformer – the error is the same. Unable to dominate and reform his own attitude towards life, which is everything, or his…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Bodily agitation, then, is an enemy to the spirit. And by agitation I do not necessarily mean exercise or movement. There is all the…

— Thomas Merton

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

— Henry David Thoreau