Advocating Quotes - Page 5

• They're mounting a campaign right now with the ACLU and a lot of different organizations advocating for [Edward Snoden] pardoning before [Barack] Obama leaves office. Wouldn't it be incredible to see something like that happen? I don't know what we can expect. I am interested in the different points and perspectives that people have.

  Zachary Quinto

  Organization, Perspective, Office

  Interview with Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• When I was secretary of state, I went around the world advocating for America, but also advocating for women's rights, to make sure that women had a decent chance to have a better life and negotiated a treaty with Russia to lower nuclear weapons. Four hundred pieces of legislation have my name on it as a sponsor or cosponsor when I was a senator for eight years.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, Russia, Eight

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I [have big plans]. Promoting freedom around the world, particularly with women in the Middle East. Working on global disease. Working on accountability in public schools. And advocating for a free marketplace and an economic environment in which businesses can innovate and create jobs.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, School, Accountability

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• Now teach-ins are fairly common or they become common place. But in 1965, the Students for Democratic Society in Ann Harbor organized the first teach-in. The way it happened was that we were advocating for a strike that we advocated that the faculty should strike in solidarity with the Vietnamese struggle.

  Bill Ayers

  Struggle, Way, Firsts

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You need people who are shaping and advocating for the actual policies and structural changes that need to occur in order to address those issues. That's where the politics and t

  Maya Harris

  Issues, Order, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been, but some things require no further reinforcement.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Selfishness, Needs

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• If I like a movie, I'm definitely advocating for it, but it's not "you should see this" or "you shouldn't see this." I try to take a longer view about what the movie is doing and where it fits in the context of other things, in the way that certain good literary criticism tries to do the same thing.

  Wesley Morris

  Views, Criticism, Trying

  "Wesley Morris, boston globe film critic: 'they hate people who have opinions that run contrary to their fanaticism'". Interview with Naoki O'Bryan, jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. April 15, 2013.

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• If you’re too stupid to understand that a philosophy that favors a federally structured republic, with numerous restraints on the scope and power of government to interfere with individual rights or the free market, is a lot different from an ethnic-nationalist, atheistic, and socialist program of genocide and international aggression, you should use this rule of thumb: If someone isn’t advocating the murder of millions of people in gas chambers and a global Reich for the White Man you shouldn’t assume he’s a Nazi and you should know it’s pretty damn evil to call him one.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Stupid, Philosophy, Men

  "Springtime For Slanderers" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. January 5, 2001.

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• I have observed in my 30 years in Washington that when a President initiates a major policy speech on a controversial issue while Congress is in recess, it usually is because what he is advocating is indefensible and that he is seeking to minimize criticism.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Issues, Years, President

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• Darwinism undermined traditional morality and the value of human life. Then, evolutionary progress became the new moral imperative. This aided the advance of eugenics, which was overtly founded on Darwinian principles. Some eugenicists began advocating euthanasia and infanticide for the disabled. On a parallel track, some prominent Darwinists argued that human racial competition and war is part of the Darwinian struggle for existence. Hitler imbibed these social Darwinist ideas, blended in virulent anti-Semitism, and--there you have it: Holocaust

  Richard Weikart

  War, Struggle, Eugenics

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• I see, therefore, the rentier aspect of capitalism as a transitional phase which will disappear when it has done its work. And with the disappearance of its rentier aspect much else in it besides will suffer a sea-change. It will be, moreover, a great advantage of the order of events which I am advocating, that the euthanasia of the rentier, of the functionless investor, will be nothing sudden, merely a gradual but prolonged continuance of what we have seen recently in Great Britain, and will need no revolution.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Wisdom, Order, Sea

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.345, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• This notion that 'what happens in your house doesn't affect what happens in my house' on the subject of the institution of marriage may be the ultimate sophistry of those advocating same-gender marriage.

  Lance B. Wickman

  House, May, Sophistry

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Mother, Children, Opportunity

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• The man that gets drunk is little else than a fool, And is in the habit, no doubt, of advocating for Home Rule; But the best Home Rule for him, as far as I can understand, Is the abolition of strong drink from the land.

  William Topaz McGonagall

  Strong, Home, Men

  William Topaz McGonagall, “The Demon Drink”

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• I'm just seeing as I grow older, and hopefully wiser, that a lot of things I see from a race perspective are class problems too, so I should be advocating for all.

  Killer Mike

  Race, Class, Perspective

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I think Hamas should be challenged to consider really embracing Gandhi and Dr. Kings philosophy of advocating nonviolence as a way to achieve self determination, end occupation, achieve unity within their country, and gain allies within Israel. I think this idea of an eye for and eye, a rocket for a bomb, will never bring about peace for either side.

  Jesse Jackson

  Country, Determination, Kings

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There is a growing interest in Confucianism in China and other parts of the world. More and more followers of Confucianism are advocating a deeper study of his philosophies. Confucius' ideals stand true even today. His philosophy on how to be a Junzi or the perfect gentleman is based on the simple ideology of love and tolerance.

  Confucius

  Philosophy, Simple, Perfect

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• One particular debate that I have seen play out again and again is whether trans people who have more traditional gender expressions or who "pass" more should be the ones who are represented. A recent advocacy guide focused on advocating around trans health care access produced by the largest trans advocacy organization in the US instructs readers that advocacy will be more successful if the message is delivered by people who pass as non-trans men and women.

  Dean Spade

  Successful, Men, Expression

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I used to think that my job didn't have anything to do with the environment. Then I realized that my job, as well as everyone else's job, impacts the environment in some way. And now advocating for sustainability has become my No. 1 responsibility.

  Ray Anderson

  Jobs, Business, Work

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• Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship.

  Mike Rogers

  Censorship, Let Me, Clear

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• In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

  John Burns

  Men, Numbers, Political

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• Advocating democracy has, by other people, often been taken as a form of imperialism, and not without some justification. So the important thing in a democracy is that it doesn't necessarily have to agree with what America's interests are, and it doesn't necessarily have to be serving American interests.

  George Soros

  Taken, Democracies Have, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.

  Rand Paul

  World, Bombing

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.'

  Michel Gondry

  Space, Culture, Contradiction

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• We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.

  Yasser Arafat

  Death, Blood, People

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