Social Reformers
No list of notable Rochesterians could ever omit Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, but the area has a long history of progressive social reformers. Anarchist Emma Goldman lived there for a time.
- Terry A. Anderson, former hostage and humanitarian
- Susan B. Anthony, women's rights leader
- Walter Cooper, research scientist, urban education reformer and civil rights activist
- Frederick Douglass, abolitionist
- Emma Goldman, anarchist
- Helen Barrett Montgomery, social reformer and women’s activist
- Helen Pitts, abolitionist and feminist
- Samuel Ringgold Ward, African-American pastor and abolitionist
- Lillian Wald, public health nurse and social worker
- Frances Willard, suffragist and temperance reformer
- Fannie Barrier Williams, black social reformer
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Famous quotes containing the words social and/or reformers:
“Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“It was the fact that the tyrant must give place to him, or he to the tyrant, that distinguished him from all the reformers of the day that I know.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)