do-gooder

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Synonyms for do-gooder

someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms

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Well I for one am sick and tired of the way this do-good society and the law itself is more interested in protecting criminals than those who are the victims.
Addiction is self-inflicted, as are the illnesses associated with it, and as long as you have the do-good brigade advocating we give them everything for free, the number of addicts will continue to increase.
Haven't we do-good humans interfered enough with nature?
It was a bright, shining dream in a sea of blight: A plan for a state-of-the-art paper recycling plant in the heart of the impoverished South Bronx, a partnership between a do-good community group and one of the nation's largest environmental groups, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
As Sarah Kaufman wrote for the Washington Post, "Fabian Barnes is not into do-good. He's strictly into do-great." When the students take center stage in his holiday extravaganza, they deliver.
In this matter, they just think they have hit on another dandy idea for a "do-good" crusade and a few neat bylines.