Jimmy Carter

We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King's success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy.

American President

Aimee Teegarden

Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade - whatever you want to call it! The ocean is such a huge, beautiful thing that I feel like we all take for granted.

American Actress

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent.

American Scientist

Gretchen Whitmer

There was nothing that amazed me more than parents that could channel the loss of their child into a crusade to protect other people's kids.

American Politician

Shakira

I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.

Musician

Johann Lamont

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

Scottish Politician

Drew Barrymore

It's my crusade to help women feel good about themselves.

Kayleigh McEnany

Hope springs eternal, even for hopeless crusades.

American Public Servant

Harold Wilson

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

English Statesman

Don Henley

American Musician

Usually indicates a social or political movement focused on reform or change.

Modern Movements

Implies a dedicated and passionate effort, often by an individual or group.

Passionate Effort

Generally used for movements perceived as beneficial or ethical.

Positive Change

Refers to specific historical religious wars, not modern conflicts.

Historical Campaigns

Crusades were typically led by European knights from the medieval period.

European Knights

The term is often associated with the control over Jerusalem and surrounding regions.

Holy Land Context

As a verb, it suggests ongoing action for a cause or issue.

Continuous Action

One must be dedicated to the cause to crusade effectively.

Dedication Required

The verb form often implies advocating for rights or policy changes.

Advocacy Implication

 You pass it around. You pass his words around. I mean, this is serious. You're afraid. He was one of the leading commanders in the second invasion of Iraq. And you're thinking, "My God, if this guy is saying that, then all the soldiers must be saying that." And this word here -- George Bush called this war a crusade.

Sam Richards: A radical...

 Both are so much better. And I think if they were adopted, I would see them around the city. In my crusade to make flags of the world more beautiful, many listeners have taken it upon themselves to redesign their flags and look into the feasibility of getting them officially adopted.

Why city flags may be...

 As imperial princess in the 12th century, Anna dedicated her life to philosophy and history. Her account of her father’s reign is historians’ foremost source for Byzantine political history at the time of the first crusade. Another scholar, Leo the Mathematician,

The rise and fall of the...

 how important this area is to these animals. We know they're feeding, breeding, and calving in a very confined space, so the conservation problems they face are far more compounded. Right now my crusade is about saving these whales from getting killed by ships.

How Finding Blue Whale...

 Now you may find it acceptable that yes, in the religious field, humans cooperate by believing in the same fictions. Millions of people come together to build a cathedral or a mosque or fight in a crusade or a jihad, because they all believe in the same stories

Why humans run the world...

 You also needed persuasion. You had to convince people to drink pasteurized milk, you had to convince the dairy industry to make pasteurized milk, and that took a whole other cast of characters. It took muckraking journalists. It took crusading lawmakers.

Steven Johnson: How...

 I began craving wild, open spaces, and so I set out to find the places others had written off as too cold, too remote, and too dangerous to surf, and that challenge intrigued me. I began this sort of personal crusade against the mundane,

Chris Burkard: The joy...

 you made an argument that following your passion isn't necessarily the wisest strategy. You argued, no, don't do that, follow curiosity. Does that apply now? Make that case. Yeah, you know, I've been on a personal crusade

It's OK to feel...

 So, Zeus ordered Demeter to stop her crusade and returned to her duties. But she refused. Deep below, across the frigid river Styx, and through the halls of the underworld,

The myth of Hades and...

 because I have this totally pelling helmet crusade right this epiphany of Tom's as it turns out it occurred to Tom that a twenty dollar helmet is a good way to protect a

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