Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."
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Radicalism
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Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"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 out of hatred and selfishness."
Woodrow Wilson
Politician
"By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all."
Theodore Roosevelt
Politician, Author
"The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side."
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"Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals."
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"We need our radicals."
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"Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism."
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"What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism."
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"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 lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life."
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