Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect a reform.
Source: Speaking on the need to reform divorce law; in Power Quotes, ed. Daniel B. Baker, 1992.
-- Susan B Anthony, (Feb 15 1820-1906), US social reformer, suffragist; She was a social reformer and champion for women's rights; co-founder of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1869.