freedom fighter

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But it’s hard to fault the admirable choice, announced Friday, of Venezuelan freedom fighter María Corina Machado.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

"Me, myself, I am a freedom fighter and I want them to be free from the Sambisa Forest regardless of the situation they find themselves when they come out, whether Muslim or married or not."

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2024

His fellow freedom fighter and inmate Tokyo Sexwale recounted the story on the 2019 podcast “Dolly Parton’s America.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 29, 2024

His father served in the Navy at the end of World War II, and his mother was a Hungarian freedom fighter whose parents were killed by the Russians.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2023

I have always believed that to be a freedom fighter one must suppress many of the personal feelings that make one feel like a separate individual rather than part of a mass movement.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela