Quotes with advocate

  • I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.
  • They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.

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  • Bruce Springsteen Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Brad Feld Anyone who knows me knows I'm a strong advocate for diversity across all dimensions.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Bennet Omalu As a physician, I'm somewhat an advocate of patients. How come, before Mike Webster, no NFL player was told or knew that there was an intrinsic risk of brain damage from playing football?
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bill de Blasio As N.Y.C. Public Advocate, I released a report that showed that stop-and-frisks of African Americans in 2012 were barely half as likely to yield a weapon as those of white New Yorkers - and a third less likely to yield contraband. Despite this evidence, the vast majority of those stopped are young black and Latino men.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Dorothy Thompson Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
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  • Carol Bellamy Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Google is a private company. It has the capacity to utilize its massive power for whatever political agenda it chooses. But for it to pretend to be an advocate for Internet freedom while simultaneously disadvantaging messages it finds politically incorrect is deeply hypocritical.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Groups that advocate open government have argued that it's vital to know the names of White House visitors, who may have an outsized influence on policy matters.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal How much greater confidence has an advocate, retained with a large fee, in the justice of his cause! How much better does his bold manner make his case appear to the judges, deceived as they are by appearances! How ludicrous is reason, blown with a breath in every direction!
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Malcolm X I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2015)
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Gloria Steinem No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • George Mcgovern No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
    George Mcgovern
    American historian, author (1922 - 2012)
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  • Arthur Erickson Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Alexander Cockburn The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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  • Carl Sagan They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • John Updike To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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