Sentence examples for advocated revolution from inspiring English sources

"I've never advocated revolution," he said.

Observing South American civilization, Humboldt had decried slavery and, although he was fundamentally a pacifist, advocated revolution over oppression.

During Sinclair's California gubernatorial race, the state's biggest businessmen ran a massive public relations campaign to defeat him, including the distribution of 6 million pamphlets (designed to prove that Sinclair was an atheist who advocated revolution, Communism, and free love), 200,000 anti-Sinclair billboards, and fake newsreels.

Of the letter cited by Cain, he says that he wasn't "advocating revolution, just explaining what it would entail".

My coat's right lapel was covered with enamel pins advocating revolution and sexual disobedience; the rarer ones were sewn on so no one could steal them at a coat check.

Brand, who advocates revolution, sparked controversy last year when he said voting made no difference.

Trotsky advocated proletarian revolution as set out in his theory of "permanent revolution", and believed that a workers' state would not be able to hold out against the pressures of a hostile capitalist world unless socialist revolutions quickly took hold in other countries as well.

"On transformation, I think they think the best a politically savvy team can do is get a first down or two," said John Hillen, a military analyst who helped write Mr. Bush's campaign speech in which, as a candidate, he first advocated a "revolution in the technology of war".

Mr. Bush took into office a vocabulary borrowed from those who advocated a revolution in military affairs, and after a campaign in which he accused President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore of squandering the military readiness that he said was planned and paid for by the preceding Republican administrations.

The prosecution argued that the texts advocated violent revolution, and that by adopting the texts as their political foundation, the defendants were guilty of advocating violent overthrow of the government.

Simone advocated violent revolution during the civil rights period, rather than Martin Luther King's non-violent approach, and she hoped that African Americans could, by armed combat, form a separate state.