Famous quotes containing the word reformers:
“It was the fact that the tyrant must give place to him, or he to the tyrant, that distinguished him from all the reformers of the day that I know.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“... every woman’s organization recognizes that reformers are far more common than feminists, that the passion to look after your fellow man, and especially woman, to do good to her in your way is far more common than the desire to put into every one’s hand the power to look after themselves.”
—Crystal Eastman (1881–1928)
“We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)