Speaking Truth to Power

See: Eddie Adams (Photographer), Nonviolence, Dissidents, Received Wisdom, Propaganda, Authoritarian, Ideocracy, American Friends Service Committee#History, American Friends Service Committee, Human Rights, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Apollonius of Tyana.

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(Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaking_truth_to_power Retrieved:2022-2-15.
- Speaking truth to power is a non-violent political tactic, employed by dissidents against the received wisdom or propaganda of governments they regard as oppressive, authoritarian or an ideocracy. The phrase originated with a pamphlet, Speak Truth to Power: a Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence, published by the American Friends Service Committee in 1955. Speak Truth To Power is also the title of a global Human Rights initiative under the auspices of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. Practitioners who have campaigned for a more just and truthful world have included Apollonius of Tyana, Vaclav Havel, ^[1] Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mahatma Gandhi, the Dalai Lama and Elie Wiesel. ^[2]

↑ Havel, Václav; et al. (1985). Keane, John, ed. The Power of the Powerless: Citizens against the state in central-eastern Europe. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe. .
↑ Nan Richardson (ed), Kerry Kennedy and Eddie Adams, 'Speak Truth to Power', Umbrage, 2003, introduction.