abolitionist

Example Sentences

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Tucked in the Puente Hills Preserve, about 12 miles southeast of Los Angeles, Whittier was founded by Quakers in 1887 and named after poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier.

From Los Angeles Times

The scenes prompted wider interest in the militant left, with more visibility for independent local networks, some of them organizing under “John Brown Gun Club,” named after the militant abolitionist who was executed in 1859.

From Washington Post

In that spirit, the walls around Simmons’s sculpture feature photo collages of Black figures holding flowers — a nod to abolitionist iconography, Simmons says, as well as a “sensual” respite from the “heady” demands of “Align.”

From New York Times

Ever since City Council approved the $90 million training center in 2021, the movement has brought together a whole host of leftists, including environmentalists and police abolitionists.

From Seattle Times

Thanks to the long and hard work of many nuclear abolitionists, The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons now provides a legal framework for eliminating all nuclear weapons.

From Seattle Times