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Someone who turns outrage into a to-do list and refuses to stop until it's done.
means A person who works persistently, often over months or years, to win a political or social cause through organized public effort.
from From 'campaign,' borrowed from French 'campagne' meaning open countryside — the same word that gives us 'champagne.' Armies used to march and fight in open fields during 'campaign season,' so the word came to mean a connected series of military operations. By the 1700s it had marched into politics and activism, and a 'campaigner' became someone waging a sustained push for a cause rather than a battle.
- origin
- from campaign, literally open country for battle
- not
- an activist who tweets then logs off
- skill
- turning one injustice into a decade-long project
- risk
- caring more about the cause than their own burnout