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We have an amazing advocate in Dr. Zullinger.
We don't hear about the Einstein who used his celebrity to advocate for political prisoners in Europe or the Scottsboro boys in the American South.
He worked as an advocate.
And that level of complacency means they don't feel the need to advocate for that culture.
But that will require helping these societies transition from having merely political coalitions to building genuinely grassroots-based social movements that advocate for the democratic culture.
I have become an advocate for stay-at-home parents.
We've had our own John Muir, who's Dr. Sylvia Earle, who's been a tireless advocate for creating these marine protected areas around the world.
I was learning more and more about what discrimination was, and equally important, I was learning that I needed to become my own advocate.
I'm standing on the shoulders of many scholars, teachers, librarians and community members who also advocate for including more people in the conversation.
And some of those girls who walked in the room very shy have taken bold steps, as young mothers, to go out there and advocate for the rights of other young women.
This is no longer me being a tech pioneer or a privacy advocate; this is me being a parent.
So I'm a strong advocate of having grown-up conversations that are based on numbers and facts.
This is an acute question for me, because I'm a prominent advocate of the existence of human nature, with all its shortcomings and perversities.
It is for this reason that, some years ago, the Movement for Global Mental Health was founded as a sort of a virtual platform upon which professionals like myself and people affected by mental illness could stand together, shoulder-to-shoulder, and advocate for the rights of people with mental illness to receive the care that we know can transform their lives, and to live a life with dignity.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm a huge advocate of the Web.
And I see their parents and their fathers who, like my own, advocate for them, despite and even in the face of daunting opposition.
But when I am back in Afghanistan, when I see the students in my school and their parents who advocate for them, who encourage them, I see a promising future and lasting change.
As we became friends, I became their trustee and their medical advocate, but more importantly, I became the person who managed their end-of-life experiences.
Yet whether you're a rationalist or a mystic, whether you think the words Muhammad heard that night came from inside himself or from outside, what's clear is that he did experience them, and that he did so with a force that would shatter his sense of himself and his world and transform this otherwise modest man into a radical advocate for social and economic justice.
They're volunteer councils, and they work directly with a designated advocate inside of city hall or even the chamber of commerce.
So I'm a city planner, an urban designer, former arts advocate, trained in architecture and art history, and I want to talk to you today not about design but about America and how America can be more economically resilient, how America can be healthier, and how America can be more environmentally sustainable.
So even these companies that are cooperating in at least a compelled but hopefully lawful manner with the NSA, the NSA isn't satisfied with that, and because of that, we need our companies to work very hard to guarantee that they're going to represent the interests of the user, and also advocate for the rights of the users.
So the appropriate adult really should be an attorney or perhaps a trained child advocate.
And now she uses her voice as a Congresswoman from Illinois to fight and advocate for a collection of issues to include veterans issues.
He later in his life became a fierce advocate of LGBT rights as well, and his life is testament to the intersection of the struggles.
My father's university teaching of Darwin had already provoked a classroom visit from the head of the so-called Islamic Salvation Front, who denounced Dad as an advocate of biologism before Dad had ejected the man, and now whoever was outside would neither identify himself nor go away.
Some use and advocate violence.
It is not enough, as the victims rights advocate Cherifa Kheddar told me in Algiers, it is not enough just to battle terrorism.
I advocate that you do, but there are tons of other things you could take.
Catalog all the skills you had to deploy, how to negotiate, how to advocate, how to frame issues, how to navigate diversity in conflict, all those skills that enabled you to bring folks on board and to overcome resistance.
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