Sentences with phrase «social reformer»

Though many social reformers of the last century have recognized the double character of this crisis, few of them have really faced the problem in both of its aspects.

After witnessing cruelty and neglect, social reformers made efforts to garner rights on children's behalf.

In social policy, words are given their ordinary meaning and social reformers deal with concepts that engage with reality.

They were also social reformers who challenged what they deemed to be wrong in society, theirs as well as those to which they went.

The minister as social reformer has most frequently also been a liberal.

Recreating the protests of AIDS campaigners in the 1990s, the film holds lessons for social reformers today

It's a quote from 18th - century theologian and social reformer John Wesley, co-founder of the Methodist movement.

As we saw, the early missionaries were evangelists and social reformers in one, because they believed that both functions belonged together in the message of the gospel.

The etymology of the term «Dalit» goes back to the 19th century when a Marathi social reformer and revolutionary Mahatma Jyotirao Phule used it to describe the «outcastes» and «untouchables» as the «oppressed and crushed victims of the Indian caste system.»

They praise slave trade campaigner William Wilberforce and the Victorian social reformers, whose faith inspired positive political action.

Minister B was a live - wire social reformer, not exactly hotheaded but certainly precipitate.

But not all liberal ministers have been concerned with social reform and not all ministerial social reformers have been liberals.

He was a courageous, militant social reformer.

The philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham had a more sophisticated (and honest) understanding of how power operates in his design for apanoptical prison to control inmates.

At the Board of Trade and then at the Treasury he was seen as an active social reformer and a Liberal who was prepared to take on the Tory establishment.

In Michael Gove and Iain Duncan Smith, the Prime Minister has two of the most outstanding social reformers of our time.

Unshackled from the Lib Dems he painted himself as a great social reformer, the «One Nation» Tory who would improve life chances, stamp out extremism and reform prisons.

Social reformers cite the Pygmalion Effect as key to reversing this sort of prejudice and encouraging child achievement.

At eighteen, I was a budding social reformer.

With chapters that feature the sordid history of each institution on the island, Horn's book is populated by all the characters you might expect in such a story: idealistic social reformers, clueless judges, abused patients, incompetent doctors and caring but powerless priests.

At that point the stage was set, with shy social reformer Eleanor on the side of the Democratic party and attention - loving gadfly Alice casting her lot with the Republicans.

I'm trying to portray the Georgist theory — based on the writings of the economist and social reformer Henry George — it was based on in the clearest way that I can.

JACOB A. RIIS: REVEALING NEW YORK»S OTHER HALF Using photography to illustrate the plight of poor was a novel idea in the 19th century, which the newspaper reporter and social reformer Jacob Riis used to full advantage.

Although relatively small in number, the group's notable members and supporters included suffragettes Emmeline Pethick Lawrence and Mary Neal, scientist Julian Huxley, social reformer Havelock Ellis, novelist H. G. Wells and surrealist photographer Angus McBean.

The core philosophy of the school was rooted in the ideas of John Dewey (1859 - 1952)-- US philosopher, educator and social reformer known for his call for a shift from authoritarian classrooms and rote memorization to student - centered models that supported a democratic learning environment.

Letchworth Garden City was founded in 1903 by Ebenezer Howard, a visionary social reformer who suggested an alternative way of life in his 1898 book Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path To Real Reform, later reissued as Garden Cities of To - morrow.

They were social reformers who challenged what they deemed to be wrong in society, theirs as well as those to which they went.

Rossiter was one of many 19th - century social reformers, philanthropists and artists who set out to improve not only housing and sanitation, but education and culture.

[11][12][13][8] Scholars have offered competing descriptions and portraits of Jesus, which at times share a number of overlapping attributes, such as a rabbi, a charismatic healer, the leader of an apocalyptic movement, a self - described Messiah, a sage and philosopher, or a social reformer who preached of the «Kingdom of God» as a means for personal and egalitarian social transformation.

The social reformer put «Smoking Bishop», a favourite Christmas tipple, into A Christmas Carol, offered by a reformed Scrooge to Bob Cratchit.

The social reformers of 19th century America count in many ways as evangelicals, as do the revivalists who preceded them in the 18th century.

In mid-twentieth-century America, as men of letters, social reformers, and political rhetoricians were transformed into «intellectuals» (itself a fascinating story), mainline Protestants came to play that role as well, and did so in theological as well as sociological and philosophical terms.

On the local level, such vigilance is a kind of «civic housekeeping» — a term inspired by the social reformer Jane Addams.

To be fair to Kierkegaard, he acknowledges the good intentions of the social reformers» drive toward equality, although «worldly equality, even if it were possible, is not Christian equality».20 He criticizes the caste system.21 Despite these concessions to the need for social justice Kierkegaard's doctrine remains inadequate.

There were some who were apprehensive that the minister might go so far as a social reformer that he would neglect the other aspects of his ministry.

Yet in 1917, when the United States entered the European war, only a small number of socialists, social reformers and religious pacifists maintained that a peace movement must of necessity oppose war.

Rudolf Steiner, (1861 - 1925), Austrian philosopher, social reformer, educator, architect, esotericist, holistic (systems) thinker.

Waldorf Education is a world - wide independent school movement developed in Germany in 1919 by Austrian philosopher, social reformer, and visionary Rudolf Steiner.

A feminist thinker and social reformer, she had witnessed first - hand the plight of impoverished women in her native Liverpool and, following her election, made sure that their voices were heard at the highest level.

A strange combination of Puritan, sex fanatic, spiritualist and social reformer, Stead died on the Titanic.

That ought to be the objective whether you're a social reformer or you take a tough approach to crime.

Journalist and social reformer, Masterman was elected in the 1906 Liberal landslide for West Ham North and was re-elected in January 1910.

Many mentioned prison reform, improving university standards and tackling extremism, as signs of the Prime Minister's determination to establish his legacy as a social reformer, guided by the compassionate conservatism which characterised his earliest pronouncements as Tory leader.

Jeremy Bentham, eighteenth - century English philosopher and social reformer, hit the nail on the head when he said, about all animals, «The question is not, Can they reason?