* Horace Mann, American education reformer and abolitionist

American education reformer and abolitionist, Horace Mann ( 1796 – 1859 ) taught political economy, intellectual and moral philosophy, and natural theology.

* Frederick Douglass ( 1818-1891, American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer

Frances Wright ( September 6, 1795 – December 13, 1852 ) also widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, abolitionist, and social reformer, who became a U. S. citizen in 1825.

* Henry Brewster Stanton ( 1805 – 1887 ), abolitionist, social reformer and husband of Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in town.

Their son was the Congregational minister, lawyer, social reformer, editor and fervent abolitionist Rev.

* Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, journalist, author, historian, abolitionist and social reformer

* Frederick Douglass ( 1818 – 1895 ), American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman, and reformer

William Lloyd Garrison ( December 10, 1805 – May 24, 1879 ) was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer.

Henry Ward Beecher ( June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887 ) was a prominent Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th century.

Abraham Lincoln was described as follows: "... he was an ignoramus and a boor ; not an apostle at all ; no grand reformer, not so much as an abolitionist, except by accident – a man of very small account in every way.

Commager's first monograph was the 1936 biography, Theodore Parker: Yankee Crusader, a life of the Unitarian minister, Transcendentalist, reformer, and abolitionist Theodore Parker ; it was reissued in 1960, along with a volume edited by Commager collecting the best of Parker's voluminous writings.

Harriet Ann Jacobs ( February 11, 1813 – March 7, 1897 ) was an African-American writer who escaped from slavery and became an abolitionist speaker and reformer.

Richard Oastler ( 20 December 1789-22 August 1861 ) was an English labour reformer, " Tory radical ", and abolitionist.

* Henry Ward Beecher ( 1813 – 1887 ), clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist.

A descendant of Welsh Quakers who had emigrated in 1698, William Parker Foulke was an abolitionist, prison reformer, pamphleteer, philanthropist, lawyer, historian and geologist, the last of which directly led to the discovery, which was partially named for him by Joseph Leidy and for which he is now best-known.

As his narrative unfolds, Frederick Douglass — abolitionist, journalist, orator, and one of the most powerful voices to emerge from the American civil rights movement — transforms himself from slave to fugitive to reformer, leaving behind a legacy of social, intellectual, and political thought.

Gerrit Smith ( March 6, 1797 – December 28, 1874 ) was a leading United States social reformer, abolitionist, politician, and philanthropist.

* Jonathan Blanchard ( abolitionist ) ( 1811 – 1892 ), a pastor, educator, social reformer, abolitionist and the first president of Wheaton College

Henry Brewster Stanton ( June 27, 1805-January 14, 1887 ) was an American 19th century abolitionist and social reformer.

The housing project is named after Frederick Douglass, African American abolitionist, author, and reformer.

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet ( 7 April 1786 – 19 February 1845 ) was an English Member of Parliament, brewer, abolitionist and social reformer.

* Horace Mann ( 1796 – 1859 ), American education reformer and abolitionist

In the words of the social reformer Charles Freer Andrews, " The Swami's intrepid patriotism gave a new colour to the national movement throughout India.

The edict against the reformer, which was finally adopted by the emperor and the diet, was drawn up and proposed by Aleandro.

Martin Luther is notable not only as a reformer, but as the author of many hymns including Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott ( A Mighty Fortress Is Our God ), which is sung today even by Catholics, and Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ ( Praise be to You, Jesus Christ ) for Christmas.

Preference for these titles generally depends on the school to which a person belongs, with " Shōnin " being commonly used within Nichiren Shū, which regards Nichiren as a Buddhist reformer and embodiment of Bodhisattva Superior Practices, while " Daishōnin " is the title used by followers of most, but not all, of the schools and temples derived from the Nikkō lineage, most notably the Sōka Gakkai, who regard Nichiren as ' The Buddha of the Latter Day of the Law ' and also Nichiren Shōshū, who regard Nichiren as ' The True Buddha ', or ' Buddha of True Cause '.

However, Harrison was seen as more of a reformer than his father, which helped him garner the middle class votes his father had lacked.

His projects included renovation of Shrewsbury Castle, the town's prison ( during the planning of which he met leading prison reformer John Howard ), the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth and another church in Madeley.

Despite Andropov's hard-line stance in Hungary and the numerous banishments and intrigues for which he was responsible during his long tenure as head of the KGB, he has become widely regarded by many commentators as a reformer, especially in comparison with the stagnation and corruption during the later years of his predecessor, Leonid Brezhnev.

Perhaps one of the most popular national heroes of the late 19th century in Victorian Britain, Livingstone had a mythic status, which operated on a number of interconnected levels: that of Protestant missionary martyr, that of working-class " rags to riches " inspirational story, that of scientific investigator and explorer, that of imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of commercial empire.

This sort of account emerges from Solon's poems ( e. g. see below Solon the reformer and poet ), in which he casts himself in the role of a noble mediator between two intemperate and unruly factions.

" Solon ( c. 638-558 BC ) was a famous legislator and reformer from Athens, framing the laws which shaped the Athenian democracy.

In later interpretations, which begin with Jordanes ( 6th century AC ) and have proliferated during the 19th and 20th century, mainly in Romania, he was regarded as the sole god of the Getae ( not to be confounded in this context with the Thracians or their relatives, the Dacians ) or as a legendary social and religious reformer of the Getae people to which he would have taught, following Herodotus, the belief in immortality, so that they considered dying merely as going to Zalmoxis.

In 1414 – 1418 the Council of Constance took place, during which, on 6 July 1415, John Hus ( Czech religious thinker, philosopher and reformer ), who was seen as a threat to Christianity by the Roman Catholic Church, was burned at the stake.

Another early Berkeley Heights community of note is the Free Acres, established in 1910 by Bolton Hall, a New York entrepreneur and reformer who believed in the idea of Henry George, the economist, of single taxation, under which residents pay tax to the community, which, in turn, pays a lump sum to the municipality.

( Hall 1996: 133 ) New Towns in the North East were also planned such as Newton Aycliffe ( which the social reformer and government adviser William Beveridge wanted to be the " ideal town to live in ") and Peterlee.

The Protestant reformer John Calvin said that repentance " may be justly defined to be “ a true conversion of our life to God, proceeding from a serious fear of God, and consisting in the mortification of the flesh and of the old man, and in the vivification of the Spirit .” He further said that " it will be useful to amplify and explain the definition we have given ; in which there are three points to be particularly considered.

After Howard's death in 1790 the leading reformer was Elizabeth Fry ( 1780 – 1845 ) who began visiting Newgate, which was particularly infamous for its treatment of women prisoners.

A bronze statue of reformer and theologian Martin Luther, which survived the bombings, has been restored and again stands in front of the church.

Pétion's next works,, and, in which he advocated the marriage of priests, confirmed his position as a bold reformer.

As a social reformer, Maurice was before his time, and gave his eager support to schemes for which the world was not ready.

His lifelong friend, scholar and social reformer Charles Eliot Norton, described Child's father, a sailmaker, as " one of that class of intelligent and independent mechanics skilled craftsmen, which has had a large share of developing the character of our democratic community, as of old the same class had in Athens or in Florence .” The family was poor, but thanks to the city of Boston's system of free public schools, the boy was educated at the Boston's Grammar and English High Schools.

In 1524-25 the Landammann Beroldingen of Josue asked the cantonal scribe Valentin Compar to write a polemic against the reformer Huldrych Zwingli, which was read to the cantonal congress and approved.

Arthur Hill, with his brothers Rowland Hill, the postal reformer and Matthew Davenport Hill, afterwards recorder of Birmingham had worked out a system of education which was to exclude compulsion of any kind.

Taking an interest in questions relating to the treatment of criminal offenders, he publicly aired opinions which were the means of introducing many important reforms in the methods of dealing with crime, drawing notably upon the theories of the Scottish penal reformer, Alexander Maconochie.