“The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life.” GovernmentAgeForceSocialLevelsStruggleProgressEconomicMovementBirthDespairSurvivalLaborUnionsMiseryMereOld AgeReformReliefTransformedPrincipalUnemploymentPensionSocial ReformTolerableLabor UnionDestituteLabor MovementCollective Bargaining Book:All Labor Has Dignity Source: All Labor Has Dignity
“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.” PeopleInspirationEffectsMen And WomenCarefulReputationReformPreservesWomen EmpowermentWomens RightsStrong WomenCastingEmpowering WomenCautiousSocial ReformSuffrageFamous WomenEmpowered WomenWomen Empowering WomenBe CautiousWomen RightsWomen EqualityWomen In HistoryWomen RightWoman SuffrageWomen LeadershipWomen's SuffragePolitical ReformBetter Woman Author:Susan B. Anthony
“Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.” PoliticalEvilIndividualSocialMereCuresReformSocial ReformManifoldPolitical Reform Author:Samuel Smiles
“Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.” IfsMenSometimesSocialCivilizationCapableReformRebellionSocial ChangeSocial ReformInsistingExecuting Book:The New Meaning of Treason Source: The New Meaning of Treason
“Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.” PoliticalSocialMovementSlaveryInspiredRadicalReformAmerican HistoryMinimumMinimum WageSocial ReformSocial MovementsGreat PoliticalReform MovementsEnding Slavery Author:Carl Bernstein