Advocated Quotes
62 quotes by 58 authors
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Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton…
— Tony Campolo
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
— Frederick Douglass
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining…
— Martin Van Buren
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That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to 'preserve'…
— Ayn Rand
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Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
— Ronald Reagan
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The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.
— Lawrence Summers
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For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.
— Oprah Winfrey
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As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful…
— Nicolaas Bloembergen
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The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain…
— Thomas Jefferson
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This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration.
— Samuel Untermyer
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I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every…
— Marwan Barghouti
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I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known to…
— James Madison
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If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think…
— Ingrid Newkirk
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The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its perceptions, its attitudes,…
— Njabulo S Ndebele
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Those who attempt to conquer hatred by hatred are like warriors who take weapons to overcome others who bear arms. This does not end hatred,…
— Gautama Buddha
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The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change
— Assata Shakur
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The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning is not advocated…
— Stanley Hauerwas
Who Wrote These Advocated Quotes
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