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Social reformer   /sˈoʊʃəl rɪfˈɔrmər/   Listen
Social reformer

noun
1.
A disputant who advocates reform.  Synonyms: crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist.





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"Social reformer" Quotes from Famous Books



... thief? Is it an absconding cashier then, a railway director, an army contractor, a Russian art patron, a lawyer, a Conservative editor, a social reformer?... Any way, ...
— Dream Tales and Prose Poems • Ivan Turgenev
... chanced upon a pamphlet by one Oscar Lovell Triggs of Chicago. It bore the title, "William Morris, Craftsman, Writer and Social Reformer." In turning over its pages I was somewhat startled to read: "'Scientific' socialism he never understood or advocated." And again further on my eye fell on this gem: "It is apparent that Morris's 'Socialism' is poetic and not scientific ...
— Socialism: Positive and Negative • Robert Rives La Monte
... the work of social regeneration, and his life was too uneventful and the society in which he lived too simple, to give his example real power over the imagination of a modern man who regards him simply as a social reformer. ...
— Reflections and Comments 1865-1895 • Edwin Lawrence Godkin


Words linked to "Social reformer" :   Comstock, militant, Anthony Comstock, utopian, conservationist, Hus, prohibitionist, Dorothea Lynde Dix, rebel, civil rights activist, Savonarola, environmentalist, Jan Hus, women's rightist, freedom fighter, feminist, hippie, Francis Everett Townsend, demonstrator, flower child, protester, hippy, Townsend, libber, John Wilkes, birth-control reformer, disputant, activist, Girolamo Savonarola, civil rights worker, insurrectionist, birth-control campaigner, chartist, Wilkes, controversialist, women's liberationist, Owen, eristic, insurgent, non-resistant, John Huss, Huss, Dorothea Dix, hipster, civil rights leader, preservationist, Dix, Robert Owen, dry, emancipationist, abolitionist, passive resister


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