freedom fighter
noun
: a person who takes part in a resistance movement against an oppressive political or social establishment
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Traditional narratives obscure the role slavery might have played in Texas’ drive for independence and portray the Alamo’s defenders as freedom fighters.
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Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
These aren’t freedom fighters animated by democratic ideals or human rights principles.
—Bobby Ghosh, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
Fiction features include Meyar Roumi’s 2023 feature The Return, about a Syrian historian living in exile in Marseilles, who travels to Damascus to retrieve the remains of his younger brother, who was shot as freedom fighter, and move them to the north in accordance with ancestral traditions.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
Eventually led by the famous general Toussaint Louverture, who, like Christophe, had previously been enslaved, the freedom fighters demanded immediate liberation.
—Marlene L. Daut
september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
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Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
These aren’t freedom fighters animated by democratic ideals or human rights principles.
—Bobby Ghosh, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
Fiction features include Meyar Roumi’s 2023 feature The Return, about a Syrian historian living in exile in Marseilles, who travels to Damascus to retrieve the remains of his younger brother, who was shot as freedom fighter, and move them to the north in accordance with ancestral traditions.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
Eventually led by the famous general Toussaint Louverture, who, like Christophe, had previously been enslaved, the freedom fighters demanded immediate liberation.
—Marlene L. Daut
september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
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