Quotes about Reform

Why doesn't anyone care that the schools in Harlem have been unsuccessful for half a century? Why is this not a big deal? To me, it's a terrible deal.

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.

We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.

As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested. If you want to mar a nature, you have merely to reform it.

Change only comes through breakdown or revolution.

To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

We are not Protestants any more—just ''non-Catholics''! Of what and of whom do we protest? Were we half as hot as we think we are, and a tenth as powerful as we say we are, our Christians would be baptized in blood, as well as in water and in fire.

When what you're doing doesn't work for 50 years, it's time to try something new.

It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.