Militant may refer to:
- The Militant, an international communist newsweekly first published in November 1928
- Militant faction, an organized radical grouping in the Socialist Party of America during the 1930s
- Militant Group, a British Trotskyist group of the 1930s
- Militant tendency, an entryist group within the UK Labour Party which emerged in 1964
Famous quotes containing the word militant:
“Let us pray for the whole state of Christ’s Church Militant here in earth.”
—Book Of Common Prayer, The. Holy Communion, “Prayer for the Church Militant,” (1662)
““I” is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)
“We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.”
—Nicolai A. Berdyaev (1874–1948)