reformer
Example Sentences
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If it is the fate of all men to be eclipsed by time, it is the special fate of the reformers of the day to be swamped by the incoming tide of tomorrow.
A new biography of one of the progressive era’s numerous women reformers makes clear that there was one important difference between then and now.
But for many, the absence of a Capitol tribute underscores a familiar tension: America celebrates its reformers rhetorically, even as its institutions struggle to fully honor them.
From Salon
Social reformers, however, were already hard at work spreading what would be consequential ideas.
“Despite all evidence to the contrary, Marshall still believed,” in Mr. Dikötter’s words, that the Communists “were not doctrinaire ideologists, but merely rural reformers who could help shape a democratic China.”
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