Fred Hampton

We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with international proletarian revolution.

American Activist

Fidel Castro

Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

Statesman

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

American Leader

Henry Cabot Lodge

You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life.

American Politician

Bruce Davison

I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.

American Actor

Jim Nantz

I never practice calls. Everything you hear is reactionary. The way I look at it is that broadcasters are just paid observers, just there to tell you what we see.

American Entertainer

Noam Chomsky

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

Anthony Scaramucci

America has always accomplished far more acting as courageous frontiersmen than weak reactionaries.

American Businessman

Theodore Roosevelt

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

American President

Mao Zedong

Chinese Leader

The term ‘reactionary’ often implies disapproval and resistance to change.

Negative Connotation

Reactionary is commonly used in discussions of politics to describe extreme conservative attitudes.

Political Context

'Reactionary' can be seen differently in various cultures, often depending on political history.

Cultural Differences

When used as a noun, 'reactionary' labels a person, potentially oversimplifying their beliefs.

Personal Label

Historically, 'reactionary' described opposition to liberal movements, linking it to past politics.

Historical Usage

A reactionary may not only oppose change but also actively work to return to traditional values.

Change vs. Tradition

 conservation worked has to be reactionary in nature people identify a problem or a threat and try to do something about it and that's understandable and in most cases that's that's required but there are some threats that we know about already we know it's going to be a problem and I think it's important to try to be

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 and they're reacting in reactionary ways there was one country though which was able to escape or stay away from that vicious cycle and that's the country where coming from it that's that's Turkey turkey has never been colonized so it remained as an independent nation

Faith versus tradition...

 they're cosmopolitan, they're sexy. They're the perfect antidote to reactionary nationalism. But cities have a dark side. They take up just three percent of the world's surface area,

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