Quotes About Reform

In our civilization there are fearful times when the criminal law wrecks a man. How mournful the moment when society draws back and permits the irreparable loss of a sentient being.

Big growers helped elect FDR. He's beholden to them. Ever wonder why his policies help almost all workers except farmworkers? I want to make it better.

In 1982 I reported and wrote a Time cover story called "Inmate Nation" about what's now called mass incarceration, because the number of U.S. inmates had just started to increase sharply and, to my editor and me, alarmingly—that year by 43,000 to 412,000. The total number of inmates today is 1.5 million, of whom 130,000 are in privately run prisons.

Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), funded over the years by the familiar (Koch, Olin, Scaife) right-wing foundations.

In 1910 President Theodore Roosevelt, a rich Republican, said that "corporate funds" used "for political purposes" were "one of the principal sources of corruption" and had "tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men whose chief object is to hold and increase their power.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

Changing the laws of a country is not the same as changing its hearts and minds.

You can't fix a bad man like a bad staircase.

Conservatism is not an attractive trait.

condemn traditional institutions but, we fervently hope, to be among

It will always be a batt le a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

For me, the Revolution sought to end mistreatment, not to democratize it.

We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind.

Roughly two-thirds of educators wholeheartedly reject the new Common Core standards, or have reservations about them," and it would be just as accurate as the way the NEA wrote it.

We allow poor teachers to hang around and plague our schools until they choose to retire. That

Se prego in cuor mio che la consapevolezza e il dibattito pubblico porteranno a una riforma, so anche che le politiche degli uomini mutano nel tempo, e persino la Costituzione viene sovvertita quando la fame di potere lo richiede. Traendo insegnamento dalla storia, dunque, non si parli più di fiducia nell'uomo, ma si vincoli quest'ultimo, contro il mal fare, con le catene della crittografia.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Now I see a few campuses that are honest

Tunisia's Educational Reform Law, passed in 1991, decreed education to be compulsory for both sexes up until the age of 16.5 Mohamed Charfi, who served as Minister of Education from 1989 to 1994, sought to establish a clear distinction between the study of religion on the one hand and the study of the rights and duties of citizenship—civics—on the other.

It is beyond doubt that Xi and Li understand, and even acknowledge, that reform is no longer a choice but a necessity,