It is only the modern political reformer who has need of the cloak of the hypocrisy of ethics to hide his own misdeeds.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
This has been the fate of all reformers, from the days of Christ-the Great reformer-until the present age.
"Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity"
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard
Nevertheless the first and final test of the religious teacher or of the social reformer is the magnetic force with which his own intense beliefs become binding on the consciences of others, if only of a few.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind