abolitionist

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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

Refusing to fight back, writes Mr. Kurlansky, Garrison “showed how an abolitionist should face a mob.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

Which is why, despite my love of berries for birds and nectar for butterflies, I’m not a total turf abolitionist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 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

While she was in London, Stanton visited with Angelina and Sarah Grimké, her abolitionist friends from New York, but she was most impressed by Lucretia Mott and the work she did as an activist.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling