abolitionist
Example Sentences
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What about critics who say the self-described police abolitionist should work closer with law enforcement to clean up the park, I told her.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026
KCK also became a major stop on the underground railroad, escaped slaves gaining freedom the instant they crossed the river into Kansas, an abolitionist state.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
During the abolitionist movement and the war itself, the North Star became a practical element of enslaved African-Americans’ looking to the heavens, a beacon of freedom and hope.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 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
Skeptical readers couldn’t help wondering why spirits of people who had lived in places as different as eighteenth-century Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, all sounded like a nineteenth-century Quaker abolitionist from western New York.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
