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Definition of Reactionary
Reactionary

Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements.

One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution.

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Reactionary Quotations

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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The right is so reactionary it goes nowhere.
Tom Metzger

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
Aneurin Bevan

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.
Woodrow Wilson

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

Reactionary Translations

reactionary in Dutch is reactionair
reactionary in Italian is reazionario
reactionary in Spanish is reaccionario


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