rights advocate
Fights for freedoms
A rights advocate is someone who actively promotes or defends the rights of others, typically focusing on a particular group or cause: a disability rights advocate, a civil rights advocate, a patients' rights advocate.
The term implies public action—speaking, writing, organizing, or lobbying on behalf of those whose interests might otherwise go unrepresented.
- activistVigorous cause champion
- justiceFair treatment under law
- equal justiceLaw applied uniformly
- social justiceFair distribution of opportunities
- defenderOne who guards another
champion · campaigner · crusader · equality · freedom · free speech · civil · human · speak truth to power · protest · lawyer · pro bono · liberation · voice · take a stand · fighter · marcher · petition
rights advocateoppressor
One who dominates cruelly
persecutor · authoritarian · tyrant · discriminator · bigot
rights advocateoppressor
One who dominates cruelly
subjugator · enslaver · dictator · inquisitor · torturer
rights, advocate, right, righted, righting, rightful, rightfully, righteous, righteousness