Famous quotes containing the words major, land and/or reform:
“Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.”
—C. Wright Mills (19161962)
“O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree,
So scant of grass, so profligate of pines,”
—Jean Toomer (18941967)
“There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of expediency. There is no such thing as sliding up- hill. In morals the only sliders are backsliders.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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