Samora Machel

Our country's liberation struggle arose as a consequence of the contradiction between colonized and colonizers, between exploited and exploiters. Reformist patterns of nationalist pressure were precluded by the very nature of colonial fascism.

Leader

Elliott Abrams

Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier.

American Lawyer

Henry Louis Gates

A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.

American Critic

Shelby Steele

In theory, affirmative action certainly has all the moral symmetry that fairness requires. It is reformist and corrective, even repentent and redemptive.

American Author

Susan George

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

American Activist

Frank Carlucci

These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.

American Politician

Lionel Blue

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.

British Clergyman

Reformist suggests a positive change and improvement, often seen as good

Positive Connotation

A reformist actively promotes and supports the process of change

Change Advocate

A reformist targets larger systems: political, educational, or social, rather than minor adjustments

System Focus

Reformist as an adjective conveys forward-thinking and readiness to embrace new ideas

Forward-Looking

Reformist contrasts with conservative, highlighting the openness to change vs. preserving status quo

Reformist vs. Conservative

The impact of reformist ideas can differ greatly depending on cultural or societal context

Context-Sensitive

 different world with different values and different political systems that interpretation is quite possible and feasible now if I were the only person thinking that way but we would be in trouble but that's not the case at all actually from the 19th century on there's a whole revisionist reformist

Faith versus tradition...

 Now, if I were the only person thinking that way, we would be in trouble. But that's not the case at all. Actually, from the 19th century on, there's a whole revisionist, reformist -- whatever you call it -- tradition,

Mustafa Akyol: Faith...

 reformist president who is beholden to a sclerotic and obstructionist legislature so the the infighting has already begun and it's actually a little bit ugly but the fighting has not and in a country