Example Sentences

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But Masur’s monumental account leaves no doubt that a generation of 19th-century racial egalitarians altered history.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2021

By categorizing people as lucky or unlucky, she argued, these egalitarians set up a moralizing hierarchy.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018

But those whigs, liberals, egalitarians, eco-warriors, freedom-fighters or pacifists who are able to imagine a far better world all hear the call of utopianism.

From The Guardian • Jan. 24, 2016

Lancashire, Turner tells us, was already over-run with itinerant preachers and tiny sects broken from Methodism, but Young and his companions were more eloquent egalitarians, offering economic as well as spiritual solutions to proletarian misery.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2012

There were even a few egalitarians who claimed for all classes a democratic régime.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved