advocacy

Updated: June 14, 2025

Thus are we presented with one of the enormous inconsistencies of the church in sex matters. The teachings of the "Early Fathers" were effect the advocacy of an attempt to enforce birth control through absolute continence, while later it reverted, as it reverts to-day, to the Mosaic injunction to "be fruitful and multiply."

Margaret Sanger - Woman and the New Race

Rush was elected a member of the State Convention which ratified the Constitution of the United States, and distinguished himself in that body by his earnest and brilliant advocacy of that instrument.

James Dabney McCabe - Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made

Blaine had many warm friends and admirers among the white men and Democrats in the State, some of them being outspoken in their advocacy of his election. In making up the electoral ticket I made every effort possible to get some of those men to consent to the use of their names. One of them, Joseph N. Carpenter, of my own home town, Natchez, gave his consent to the use of his name.

John Roy Lynch - The Facts of Reconstruction

I fear, however, there are some of the Leaguers so outrageous in their advocacy of abstract principles, that they would have a free-trade in vice a free-trade in consigning people to perdition!

James Richardson - Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846

There is, however, a spurious advocacy of peace, which is based, not upon love to men so much as upon enmity to our own Government, and which levels against it untrue charges of having caused the Transvaal War. It was to show the erroneousness of these charges that I wrote this letter." The following is the text of the letter:

Josephine E. (Josephine Elizabeth Grey) Butler - Native Races and the War

This distinction excludes arbitrary power in whatever numbers; which notwithstanding all that Hobbes, Filmer and others have said to its advantage, I look upon as a greater evil than anarchy itself; as much as a savage is in a happier state of life than a slave at the oar. Swift is here combating Hobbes's advocacy for a sovereign power, as vested in a single person.

Jonathan Swift - The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 : Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1

One remark more. I return Mr. Seymour and Mr. Jones my sincere and heartfelt thanks for their able eloquence and advocacy on my part in this affair. I wish also to return to Mr. Roberts the very same. My name, sir, might be wished to be, known. It is not William O'Meara Allen. My name is William Philip Allen.

Unknown - The Dock and the Scaffold

Some of the zealous defenders of the principles and methods of the Jesuits affirm that, in their advocacy of dissimulation and prevarication in the interests of a good cause, the Jesuits do not intend to justify lying, but are pointing out methods of proper concealment which are not within the realm of the lie.

H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull - A Lie Never Justifiable

His neatness in dress, and earnest advocacy of a brilliant uniform for the officers and men of the Revolutionary Army, had its foundation in the very atmosphere he lived in, this magnificent Chester Valley. "Dandy" Wayne indeed, but only so far as neatness in dress and delicacy of taste were concerned, for a nobler-minded, more unselfish patriot never entered the army of a nation.

- Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 : A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more : than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

And besides his usual kind of calm and measured argument, he can occasionally, as in divers passages of the Sir William Hamilton and the political books, rise or sink from the logical and rhetorical points of view respectively to an impassioned advocacy, which, though it may be rarely proof against criticism, is very agreeable so far as it goes.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)