political activists
Cause-driven organizers
Political activists are people who work to promote, impede, or direct social or political change.
The term covers a wide spectrum—from community organizers and protest leaders to lobbyists and grassroots campaigners.
Activists may focus on elections, policy reform, civil rights, environmental issues, or countless other causes.
The work ranges from peaceful demonstration to civil disobedience: Political activists staged a sit-in at the capitol.
- voting rightsEntitlement to elect officials
- anti-communismOpposition to Marxist ideology
- boycottingRefusing to engage commercially
- civil disobediencePeaceful refusal to obey
- abolitionist movementCampaign to end slavery
protest · progressivism · civil rights movement · coalitions · economic hardship · grassroots organizing · community organizing · grass roots · suffragette movement · labor movement · climate change · whistleblowers · anti-war movement · lobbying · sit-ins · taking to the streets · demonstrators · nonviolent resistance
- notable peoplepoliticians, artists, leaders, writers, scientists
- notablesleaders, celebrities, dignitary, rulers, VIPs
- Greek Independenceuprising, Greek War of Independence, liberation struggle, revolt, revolutionaries
- Slovak Peoplenational heroes
- historical figureshistorical figures, leaders, Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Joan of Arc
- historical womenCleopatra, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, Marie Curie
political activistsbystanders
People present but uninvolved
spectators · couch potatoes · armchair critics · silent majority · fence-sitters
political activistsreactionaries
Those opposing progressive change
the powers that be · conformists · conservatives · incumbents · ruling class