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abolitionist

noun as in person wanting something ended

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“Power concedes nothing without a demand,” she told a crowd gathered in Sproul Plaza on that October Thursday in 1964, quoting abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

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Radical abolitionist John Brown and his sons hacked five men to death with swords.

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As slavery reached the zenith of its power, abolitionists would destroy the white consensus upon which it depended.

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During the campaign, she described herself as an abolitionist — someone who supports the abolition of police and prisons.

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U.S. officials first announced in 2016 that a ship would be named for Milk, as well as for abolitionist Sojourner Truth, Chief Justice of the United States Earl Warren, Atty.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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