Gladden has been an outspoken critic of the present city administration and led his union's battle against the teamsters, which began organizing city firemen in 1959.

More recently Alfie Kohn has been an outspoken critic of the No Child Left Behind Act and a passionate defender of the progressive tradition.

He was an outspoken and early critic of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.

, his public denial of the health risks of passive smoking, and as an outspoken critic of the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming.

He was also an outspoken critic of Wilson's League of Nations.

While racial mysticism played a key role in his own worldview, Spengler had always been an outspoken critic of the pseudo-scientific racial theories professed by the Nazis and many others in his time, and was not inclined to change his views upon Hitler's rise to power.

The most outspoken critic of the church in France was François Marie Arouet de Voltaire, a representative figure of the enlightenment.

He was an outspoken critic of the idea of molecular assemblers, as advocated by K. Eric Drexler and introduced scientific objections to them.

Arnold was an outspoken critic of the trend towards high levels of abstraction in mathematics during the middle of the last century.

A vocal critic of conservative government policy, his outspoken rhetoric in parliament earned him the nickname " Schmidt-Schnauze ".

Bentham was an outspoken critic of the revolutionary discourse of natural rights and of the violence that arose after the Jacobins took power ( 1792 ).

" ( Benigni is an outspoken critic of media tycoon and then former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

A longtime critic of the Huntingtonian paradigm, and an outspoken proponent of Arab issues, Edward Said ( 2004 ) also claimed that not only is the Clash of Civilisations thesis a " reductive and vulgar notion " ( p. 226 ), but it is also an illustration “ of the purest invidious racism, a sort of parody of Hitlerian science directed today against Arabs and Muslims ” ( p. 293 ).

He was an outspoken critic of the Madison administration and its wartime policies, denouncing its efforts at financing the war through paper money and ( in "

In June 1998, Tianjin professor He Zuoxiu, an outspoken critic of qigong, appeared on a talk show on Beijing Television and openly disparaged qigong groups, making particular mention of Falun Gong.

He became an outspoken critic of the Nixon-Kissinger over-reliance on détente, a situation preferred by the Soviet Union, favoring the Helsinki process instead, which focused on human rights, international law and peaceful engagement in Eastern Europe.

He defended the book The Israel Lobby and U. S. Foreign Policy and was an outspoken critic of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

It has a tradition of providing quality arts coverage, and is noted for its visual art critic, Brian Sewell, more recently also a television personality, who is renowned for his outspoken dismissal of Britart and the Turner Prize.

Hugo Reid, an outspoken critic of the mission system and its effects on the native populations, at Rancho Santa Anita circa 1850.

Yale literature professor Harold Bloom has been an outspoken critic of the Cultural Studies model of literary studies.

In 2002, he became an outspoken critic of trusted computing proposals, in particular Microsoft ’ s Palladium operating system vision.

The misery endured by Haiti's poor made a deep impression on Aristide, and he became an outspoken critic of Duvalierism.

In Wales Lady Llanover, motivated by Calvinistic Methodists teachings, closed all the public houses on her estate and was an outspoken critic of the evils of drink.

" An ardent supporter of state rights, Henry was an outspoken critic of the United States Constitution.

Huntington was an outspoken critic of the Coercive Acts of the British Parliament.

He has questioned the link between second-hand smoke and lung cancer, and has been an outspoken opponent of the mainstream scientific view on climate change ; he argues there is no evidence that increases in carbon dioxide produced by human beings is causing global warming and that the temperature of the earth has always varied.

Andrew Revkin writing for the New York Times described Watson as an " outspoken advocate of the idea that human actions — mainly burning coal and oil — are contributing to global warming and must be changed to avert environmental upheavals.

As the voice of Canadians at the United Nations, Rock was an outspoken advocate of human rights, human security and reforming the UN.

Gutiérrez has been an outspoken advocate for human and civil rights of the Puerto Rican people.

He is an outspoken proponent of nuclear energy and skeptical of sole human responsibility for climate change.

Charles Dickens was an outspoken and high profile early critic, and several of his novels, in particular Oliver Twist and Hard Times demonstrate his insight into the damage that institutions can do to human beings.

" Though physicist and outspoken manned spaceflight opponent Robert L. Park stated that robotic spacecraft " are doing so well it's going to be hard to justify sending a human ," the vision announced by the President states that " robotic missions will serve as trailblazers — the advanced guard to the unknown.

He has championed several human rights and environmental issues including being the first MP to back the Canadian Boreal Initiative, and an outspoken critic for the defence of undocumented workers.

In 1965, the writer Yuli Daniel was arrested due to his satirical anti-Stalinist works and outspoken protest at the human rights abuse in the USSR.

Bonner remained outspoken on democracy and human rights in Russia and worldwide.

Half-orcs who identify with their human heritage follow human deities, and may engage in outspoken displays of piety to gain acceptance and solidify their bond to humans.

She is outspoken about subjects such as the benefits of emotional suffering, the constant changing of a human being, and how innocence is never completely lost.

In this same time frame, Sturtevant was an outspoken opponent of eugenics and was interested in the effects of the atomic bomb on human populations, due to his previous research on lethal genes.

Roy Bourgeois is an outspoken critic of US foreign policy in Latin America and is the founder of the human rights group School of the Americas Watch.

He was critical of the corruption of the regime as it manifested itself through the government ’ s mismanagement of relief funds after the 1972 Managua Earthquake, and became an outspoken critic of the human rights abuses carried out by the National Guard.

In fact, Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube, a respected human rights activist and outspoken critic of the government, publicly called for a peaceful uprising before the elections took place, claiming that the elections had already been fixed.

Cardinal Joseph Zen, the immediate past Bishop of Hong Kong, was outspoken about religious freedom and human rights in China.

Shymko has remained an outspoken human rights activist, representing a number of NGO's before the UN General Assembly, the Council of Europe, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the UN Human Rights Commission.