liberationist
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liberationists
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a person who supports or advocates the liberation of a particular group that is socially restricted or denied rights and freedoms.
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Christianity. an adherent of liberation theology.
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supporting or advocating the liberation of a particular group that is socially restricted or denied rights and freedoms.
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Christianity. adhering to liberation theology.
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The Black prophetic, liberationist, abolitionist Christian tradition is the single most significant resistance movement ever to develop in the U.S.
From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2024
Black liberationist theology, which emerged during the Civil Rights Movement, emphasizes that social action on behalf of the Black community is part of the spiritual responsibility of the faithful.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2021
One writer, the gay liberationist Greg Turner, cited it in a 1976 essay outlining his search for an identity label.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2020
The rhetorical question of Duberman’s recent book title pithily summarizes the liberationist critique: “Has the Gay Movement Failed?”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2019
He had, it was suspected, liberationist sympathies, so that it was of no great importance that he was not quite convinced.
From The Dust of Conflict by Harold Bindloss
They’ve helped achieve precisely the kind of liberation that Stonewall’s most ardent liberationists envisioned: the freedom to be ourselves.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2019
In the 1970s it was something of a cross between black liberationists and early environmental activists.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 18, 2018
A former cop, he studies extremists of all stripes, from radical Islamists to animal liberationists, and trains law enforcement in dealing with ideologically motivated violence.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2015
I started this piece by asking what gay was; one of the answers to that question, as the liberationists themselves used to put it, was that it was good.
From Slate ● May 11, 2015
In the first place, there was the view of the liberationists and their like.
From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Sir Leslie Stephen
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