All 12 Uses
advocate
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Black Like Me
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- We were advocating only that this country live up to its promises to all citizens.
*advocating = recommending
- Afterward, one of the priests got up and asked: "But aren't you advocating an un-Christian way—the way of accepting as a reality this white-imposed separation?"
- Newsmen like P. D. East and other white Southerners showed that the white man who advocated that this country live up to its promises to all citizens was no more free than any black man.†
- Any white man who advocated justice in those days could be ruined by his white neighbors.†
- I think the general public has never understood the "special" kind of life that civil rights advocates had to lead in those years.†
- For example, many civil rights advocates, white and black, traveled and lectured extensively.†
- We were advocating only one thing: that this country rid itself of the racism that prevented some citizens from living as fully functioning men and as a result dehumanized all men.†
- When we would get together—with Dick Gregory, Martin Luther King, Sarah Patton Boyle, P. D. East, or any of the hundreds of more or less public advocates of civil rights—we compared notes and discussed this.†
- Many white civil rights advocates did not keep in close touch with the reality being lived by black Americans.†
- Often I was accused, as were even Dr. King and Dick Gregory, of advocating violence.†
- This is like accusing a doctor of advocating the very cancer he is trying to prevent from spreading.†
- One elderly scholar who had been a thundering advocate of civil rights now speaks of "those black punks."†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(advocate as in: to advocate) to recommend or publicly support (someone or something)
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(2)
(advocate as in: an advocate supporting) a person who publicly supports and works to advance a cause
or more rarely:
someone acting in the role of a defense lawyer in England's past and in some jurisdictions today -
(3)
(advocate as in: an advocate in court) a lawyer or officer of the court in some jurisdictions in Europe, colonial America, and the military
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(4)
(devil's advocate as in: I'll play the devil's advocate) a person who takes an unpopular position to encourage debate or test ideas
- (5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)