Advocate Quotes

• If you give people an idea these days, they just think you are sharing it with them so they can critique it, play devil's advocate, and so on. It doesn't occur to them that they might help or get enthused or at least have the courtesy to get out of your way.

  

  Esme Raji Codell
  • Help
  • Idea
  • Critique

• I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Me
  • Angel
  • Drink

• Malcolm X made it very clear that if somebody goes after you - whether it's cops or not - you have to defend yourself. But he was not an advocate for violence the way the Black Panthers were.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Violence
  • Cops
  • Black Panthers

• My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Book
  • Me
  • Mom

• I'm quite an advocate of free trade.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Free
  • Trade
  • Advocate

• Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Man
  • Yourself
  • Advocate

• I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Society
  • Education
  • Panacea

• As an elected official, an advocate for children, and an educator, Glenn Poshard has always fought for what's right.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Children
  • Always
  • Advocate

• I've been a longtime advocate of farmworker rights.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Rights
  • Workers
  • Advocate

• There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Community
  • Immigration
  • U.S.

• For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Writing
  • Pleasure
  • Gratitude

• I'm never certain how to respond when an advocate on the other side of a case calls up images of patriots over the centuries who have sacrificed themselves to preserve our democracy.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Up
  • Democracy
  • Centuries

• You have to be a strong advocate of the shows you believe in. Sometimes those skills are very similar to agenting.

  

  Sue Naegle
  • Believe
  • Shows
  • Advocate

• I would advocate for a later date. That gives everybody enough time to do what needs to be done.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • Date
  • Advocate
  • Later

• If you are asking me if I would advocate that the Chinese go to greater flexibility in their exchange rate, I certainly would.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Chinese
  • Advocate
  • Exchange rate

• No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• I always think, medically... you really have to be your advocate. You have to be able to back up everything that you're feeling with some information and protect yourself through the world of hospitals and doctors' offices, so the more information the better.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Up
  • World
  • Feeling

• We're doing quite well in some states, but there are states that you can't - I mean, it's just ridiculous the representation of women, and having been an advocate for women, lobbied in many states as well as here at the national level for women. People behave differently when there are women at the table, men do. Our issues get higher prominence. We're taken more seriously.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Believe
  • Advocate

• In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Law
  • Anarchy
  • Advocate

• Throughout my career I have been an advocate for women, in all aspects of their lives.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Women
  • Career
  • Aspects

• We need to advocate for social justice and reform so that all minorities are protected not only under the law but more importantly by our cultural values and ethic. The law cannot change the human heart. Government is limited in its ability to effect culture. This is the role and responsibility of the Church. Only Jesus can move us from hate to love.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Church
  • Justice
  • Reform

• I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Governments
  • Despotism
  • Detestation

• I’m a problem solver, an advocate and an ambassador for about 150,000 people. It’s the best job in the world.

  

  Justin Brannan Caninus
  • Problem
  • Advocate
  • Solver

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