Sentence examples for social crusader from inspiring English sources

And you think he's some kind of social crusader".

Fuller, the formidable American editor, feminist, foreign correspondent and social crusader, was only 40.

The extraterrestrial social crusader resembles Mad magazine's jug-eared mascot Alfred E Neuman, and often behaves like Mr Bean.

Stetson Kennedy, a folklorist and social crusader who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s and wrote a lurid exposé of its activities, "I Rode With the Ku Klux Klan," died on Saturday in St. Augustine, Fla.

The Louisiana nurses are a different stripe of social crusader: deeply religious women, in the main, who work their butts off while retaining an awareness of whether their pocketbooks match their skirts and their shoes.

In that role, the bent for forgiveness and redemption he was to develop as a social crusader -- "hate the sin, love the sinner" was his motto -- first came to public notice, and he was criticized for being too generous to the defeated Germans.

It started in 1994 with a dozen posters called "African-American Women of Hope," featuring the poet Maya Angelou, the novelists Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, and the social crusaders Marian Wright Edelman and Ida Wells-Barnett.

Dr. King was surely driven by guilt, as a good many social crusaders are, at least religious ones: guilt that motivates them to change society, guilt about why they are driven to do this at some cost to their personal lives, and guilt that arises from how they are supposed to exploit whatever success they achieve.

While Czitrom, a historian at Mount Holyoke College, places Riis in the context of other 19th-century social crusaders, Yochelson, a former photo curator at the Museum of the City of New York, offers a more critical assessment; she re-evaluates Riis's photography and questions the mythos that surrounds him.

The vote was billed as a showdown between two factions -- one favoring tradition, the other seeking to broaden the organization's goals -- but Ms. Ferrin rejected the idea that factions were struggling for control of the society and declined to characterize any of the protagonists as traditionalists or social crusaders.

She produced social-crusader journalism under her own name for the likes of Harper's Monthly Magazine and Appletons' Journal, and a solitary extraordinary novel under the solitary extraordinary pseudonym Czeika: "An Operetta in Profile" (1887).