"Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage."
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"I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform."
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"The best social reform program in the world is a job."
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"He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it."
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"The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people."
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"Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves."
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"No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers."
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"Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character."
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"No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer."
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"Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government."
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"On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government."
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"We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
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"My desolation does begin to make A better life."
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"It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration."
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"We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him."
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"[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism."
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"Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass."
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"Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers."
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"To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error."
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"The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist."
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