abolitionist
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She criticized Hernandez for describing herself as abolitionist — someone who favors the gradual replacement of law enforcement with other social services.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Some prosecutors aren’t waiting for the passage of abolitionist laws.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
William Lloyd Garrison had been both an abolitionist and a pacifist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025
“Power concedes nothing without a demand,” she told a crowd gathered in Sproul Plaza on that October Thursday in 1964, quoting abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2025
Less than two weeks after the gathering—on August 2, 1848—a second women’s rights convention, organized by Amy Post, a prominent Quaker abolitionist, took place at the Unitarian church in Rochester, New York.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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