When I first started talking about gay marriage most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.

I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.

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

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.

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

It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.