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• It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

  Sargent Shriver

  Jobs, Catholic, Speak

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• You're not going to be liked by everybody when you speak the truth. I don't speak the truth to put people down; I don't speak the truth to show disrespect.

  Hope Solo

  People, Disrespect, Speak

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• I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Real, Responsibility, Thinking

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• A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power does not shield the speaker from the consequences of doing so; only comparable power or anonymity can do that.

  Nick Harkaway

  Secret, Desire, Democracy

  Nick Harkaway (2012). “The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World”, p.145, Vintage

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• I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

  Chief Joseph

  Truth, Believe, Heart

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• Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Life, Success, Truth

  House in Paris (1935) pt. 1, ch. 5

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• Honor to those who in the life they lead
  define and guard a Thermopylae.
  Never betraying what is right,
  consistent and just in all they do
  but showing pity also, and compassion;
  generous when they are rich, and when they are poor,
  still generous in small ways,
  still helping as much as they can;
  always speaking the truth,
  yet without hating those who lie.
  And even more honor is due to them
  when they foresee (as many do foresee)
  that in the end Ephialtis will make his appearance,
  that the Medes will break through after all.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Badass, Lying, Hate

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “Thermopylae”

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• The greatest blunder I have seen that almost everyone makes is to just speak their mind. It doesn't make any sense. They sound like the squawking ducks in a pond. The mind is not meant to be spoken. The mind is mostly waves of thoughts and sensations from many sources. The mind is meant to know the truth. Know your own mind and use it to speak the truth.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Communication, Ducks, Mind

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• If people depend on me to be a man of truth, I have to prove again and again and again and again that I am a man of truth. It cannot be that on Monday I am a man of truth, on Tuesday I speak three-quarters truth, Wednesday I speak half-truth, on Thursday I speak one-quarter truth, on Friday I don't speak at all, and on Saturday I can't even think how to speak the truth.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Friday, Monday, Communication

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• If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Responsibility, Would Be, Followers

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.390, John Wiley & Sons

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• For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

  John Bunyan

  Care, Speak, Profit

  John Bunyan (2017). “Pilgrim's Progress (Illustrated Edition)”, p.78, Whitaker House

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• The standing fields [ready to harvest]were the legions who hadn't filled their God-vacuum with the One who was born to fill it; the standing fields were those who waited for someone to reach out and speak the truth, and tell them how they might be saved.

  Jan Karon

  Might, Fields, Vacuums

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• There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.

  Ted Nugent

  Government, Monsters, Audacity

  "Ted Nugent Calls Himself 'A Black Jew at Nazi-Klan Rally,' Stands by Obama Beheading Statement" by Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 18, 2012.

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• Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Powerful, People, Needs

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• Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

  Silius Italicus

  Speak, Danger, Inaction

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• A theologian of the cross says what a thing is. In modern parlance: a theologian of the cross calls a spade a spade. One who ‘looks on all things through suffering and the cross’ is constrained to speak the truth…it will see precisely that the cross and the resurrection itself is the only answer to that problem, not erasure or neglect.

  Gerhard

  Suffering, Looks, Answers

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• When we heal ourselves, others are healed. When we nurture our dreams, we give birth to the dreams of humankind. When we walk as loving aspects of the Earth Mother, we become the fertile, life-giving Mothers of the Creative Force. When we honor our bodies, our health, and our emotional needs, we make space for our dreams to come into being. When we speak the truth from our healed hearts, we allow life abundant to continue on our Mother Planet.

  Jamie Sams

  Mother, Dream, Heart

  Jamie Sams (1993). “The 13 Original Clan Mothers: Your Sacred Path to Discovering the Gifts, Talents, and Abilities of the Feminine Through the Ancient Teachings of the Sisterhood”, Harper San Francisco

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• The fisherman of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word sentipensante, or ‘feeling-thinking’ to define language that speaks the truth. Eduardo Galeano

  Rob Brezsny

  Thinking, Doctors, Feelings

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.180, Frog Books

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• I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Lying, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.78

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• Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.

  Michael Jackson

  Silence, Emotion, Speak

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• We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States.

  Julian McMahon

  Powerful, America, United States

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• All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.

  Iris Murdoch

  Art, Simple, Speak

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.24, Penguin

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• Speak the truth. Affirm your desire. Declare your intentions. Recall your successes. Your psyche will believe you. Your body will feel you. Your Soul will thank you for the straight-up communication.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Communication, Believe, Soul

  "Why Affirmations Can Mess You Right Up (And What to Say to Yourself Instead)" by Danielle LaPorte, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2012.

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• William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in acquiring knowledge. Any reader, of any age, will enjoythis book.

  Jill Ker Conway

  Teacher, Book, Discipline

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• It's very, very hard to speak truth to power when the truth is unpleasant. I think it's one of the toughest things especially a young person has to do and the only way you can do it is if you're willing to walk out the door if he doesn't take your advice. Or if you're willing to walk out the door if he goes over the line.

  David Gergen

  Thinking, Doors, Advice

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