crusader

“I’ve always been an out-front crusader, whether I stand alone or with a thousand.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

On the bright side, it looks like Cunningham might not have the fortitude for the life of a crusader.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

A writer, activist, organizer, prodigious intellect and a lifelong crusader for racial equality, Du Bois might have deemed his own life a failure, especially if he’d lived another 60 years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Kareen Hill, 27, of New York, is another microtrip crusader on social media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026

He saw himself as a crusader, a champion of the underdog, an enemy of sinister authority.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Mr. Okrent has an eye for the era’s characters, from relentless temperance crusaders to slick bootleggers and local citizens who regarded the complicated legal regime of prohibition as a novel business opportunity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Antidebt crusaders, like the personal-finance radio host Dave Ramsey, have been speaking for years about how paying thousands of dollars in interest can seriously impede a family’s ability to make progress on their other goals.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026

The film mourns all such political crusaders whose names we never knew, although it wears its commentary lightly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

CBS’ crime-time detectives and Dick Wolf’s crusaders are constructed from the bones of Doyle’s eternally durable creation, but so are medical mysteries.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025

Finally, the door swung closed 011 the last of the crusaders for Moorish dignity.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole