Quotes about advocacy
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For future Snowdens, we want to show there is an organization that will do what we did for Snowden - as much as possible - in raising money for legal defense and public advocacy for whistleblowers so they know if they come forward there is a support group for them.
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For advocacy and guardianship help, there is not a place. I don't know what to tell them.
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It (some of the opposition) consists of what I call professional protesters. There are organizations - advocacy groups. Their job is to make money by opposing things. These groups oppose everything.
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The release of these papers comes at an opportune time. The current issue of TIME offers a series of essays reputedly about climate science, carrying the ominous head line: 'Be Worried, Be Very Worried'. If viewed through a prism of current science, it should read: 'Be Skeptical, Be Very Skeptical'. The entire series is ill- informed, biased and unacceptable for serious public policy decisions. It is, in short, nearly hysterical advocacy designed to frighten readers toward supporting far-reaching policy decisions that would be both harmful and useless. Robert Ford
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It's an odd collection of programs, but they are really united by advocacy for vulnerable people.
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It was somewhat surreal to think that HIMSS first launched its advocacy initiative just a little over five years ago and here we are today meeting in the White House with the President's key HIT policy advisors on our members' advocacy agenda. Dave Roberts
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It will be a large priority to make sure we have a seat at the table to craft out a policy that allows for bona fide, above-board advocacy and nonprofit organizations to be able to fund congressional travel.
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We know from Wood's experience that it's not a very welcome atmosphere for women's rights advocacy at the agency. Kim Gandy
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We strongly oppose the Nebraska law that divides the Omaha public schools along racial lines. The Supreme Court ruled those 52 years ago that separate but equal schools result in inequality and poor education for minority children. We will use every advocacy tool, including legal, at our disposal to fight this unconstitutional law. Bruce Gordon
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When we began this year, no one would have guessed that the vice president would be needed to break a tie on the budget. Our advocacy made a difference.
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What has protected our community far before 9/11 from extremism and violent ideology is that balanced mainstream advocacy of Islamic principles.
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As a result Oracle discovered both the Independent Institute and the National Taxpayer's Union were misrepresenting themselves as independent advocacy groups when in fact they were funded by Microsoft for the express purpose to influence public opinion in favor of Microsoft in the antitrust trial.
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Advocacy is calling for action. Aggressive reporting is calling for answers.
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The state of Maryland sets the guidelines. They allow community service, they allow advocacy to earn these 60 hours. Every student between the grades of 6 and 12 have to earn 60 hours to graduate high school, and the state sets the guidelines under which those hours can be earned, and advocacy is one of those areas.
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AIM Global takes its advocacy role very seriously. We see this video as another chance to educate the general public about a misunderstood and often maligned technology. We have a responsibility to our members to ensure that all technologies are presented in a realistic way, and we believe the video is a big step in the right direction. Dan Mullen
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There is concern by us and certainly by many others that this board is subject to capture. There is concern that it's subject to capture by a small group of corporations, to a country, to an advocacy group bent on changing the way the Internet works for its own purposes.
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Due in large part to our advocacy efforts for Niger, it's been brought to the front pages all around the world and the world response since then has been heartening ....
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Each year between two and five million people worldwide die from lack of safe water and sanitation. Given this dire situation, the creation of a US-based advocacy group is long overdue, ... We know what the problem is and we have the knowledge and resources to save millions of lives - we simply need to extend water to those without it. Water Advocates and other US nonprofits can make enormous strides in helping solve this worldwide crisis by informing the public and ensuring that funding is available for more projects. David Douglas
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While these data are of little comfort to any senior who has experienced a problem, they do put the scope of the issue in perspective. Our community's job is to work collaboratively with beneficiaries, pharmacies, physicians and advocacy organizations to resolve any remaining transition issues.
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Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground. Phil Bredesen
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We are an advocacy organization on behalf of hospitals. Overnight we turned into a hospital emergency center.
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We function as an advocacy group in forcing the administration's hand.
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You have to make sure that there is a balance; that it doesn't seem scary to the children. The whole idea of an advocacy center, it's supposed to be a child-friendly place where a child could feel secure and be able to tell their stories.
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This was the working relationship that President Summers had with the Harvard faculty and the Harvard Corporation, the trustees. The advocacy by presidents from other institutions wouldn't really have had an impact on that.
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There's a district policy that requires teachers to ensure that for all topics, particularly controversial topics, both sides are presented, ... There's not an advocacy role to be played by the teachers in an instructional program.
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there's no role for advocacy with respect to personal beliefs or views on the part of a judge. John Roberts
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There's no corruption proven in that story to justify a letter to Carol Lam or anybody else for that matter. We continue to dispute (the critics') . . . allegations. The facts are on our side. There was nothing illegal or unethical done in the advocacy of this project, and this is simply sour grapes on their part.
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There's likely to be more informality in the memos, which will be more revealing of Roberts' cast of mind, ... There may also be advocacy of positions that were rejected.
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We're seeking to heighten the advocacy of the region as an energy supplier to the continent.
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I believe that some in the advocacy community are overlooking that the most obvious way to reduce injuries is to buckle up. The vehicle can only do so much. At a certain point, people have to do their part.
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More institutions are screening out the very worst social but also using shareholder advocacy to improve those that don't make the grade.
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One of the most crucial kinds of intervention is in advocacy. We can think about charities in the context of delivering services, and indeed that is part of their job, but advocacy is also getting governments to step up to the plate. They can also give more voice to those who don't have one. Nicholas Kristof
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The Advocacy is concerned that the overlapping federal and state do-not-call registries may create undue burdens for small businesses, Thomas Sullivan