freedom movement
Struggle for rights
A freedom movement is an organized effort to secure political independence, civil rights, or liberation from oppression.
The term most often refers to struggles against colonialism or racial injustice: the Indian freedom movement, the American civil rights movement is sometimes called the freedom movement.
It implies collective action toward self-determination or equal rights.
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- liberationRelease from constraint
- breaking chainsDestroying bonds that bind
- empowermentGaining authority or confidence
- individualityUnique personal character
free at last · equality · suffrage · voting rights · women's lib · decolonization · abolitionism · land reform · workers' rights · racial justice · March on Washington · disability advocacy · self-determination · cultural renaissance · indigenous rights · climate justice · solidarity · revolution
- social movementswomen's liberation, abolition, feminism, disability rights, LGBT rights
- Meiji JapanEmperor Meiji, modernization, westernization, privy council, prefectures
- nationalismpatriotism, national pride, national sovereignty, national identity, national symbols
- Congress PartyINC, hand symbol, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, chief ministers
- nudismnaturism, nudism, nudist, nudist colony, nudist colonies
freedom movementoppression
Unjust exercise of power
tyranny · totalitarianism · authoritarianism · fascism · repression
freedom movementpolice state
Regime controlling through surveillance
authoritarian regime · secret police · surveillance state · military junta · occupation forces