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Letter "A" » advocate
«I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable, the desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the unconcerned world would start with real horror.»
Author: Dorothea Dix
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Philanthropist)
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Keywords:
advocate,
claims,
desolate,
desolated,
desolating,
helpless,
horror,
legislature,
Legislatures,
outcast,
sunk,
The Advocate,
unconcerned
«I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.»
«Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?»
«If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.»
«I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.»
«In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law. That would lead to anarchy.»
«I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?»
«I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint-no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided...»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(
President)
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About:
Communism,
Students,
Teachers and teaching,
University
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Keywords:
academic,
academic freedom,
advocate,
distasteful,
Marxism,
professor,
viewpoint,
viewpoints
«If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty,»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
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Orator,
Statesman)
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Keywords:
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advocate,
advocated,
advocating,
after all,
ears,
First to,
Genesis,
Give Me Liberty,
human ear,
sacred,
schoolmaster,
schoolmasters,
serpent,
thank,
The Advocate,
whisper
«He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.»