Truth To Power Quotes

“A librarian for president is exactly what this country needs.”
― Richard Castle, High Heat

“We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Soledad

“The truth brings no man a fortune”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea...”
― Brandi L. Bates, Soledad

“The gods don't deserve any special deference solely because they're powerful. If they can judge us based on our actions, we should be treating them according to their own.”
― Rich Burlew

“After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“In a clever retort, alluding to both his considerable girth and to his network of influential friends abroad, the agronomist replied, “Your Excellency, the weight of my body would break the gallows with a noise loud enough to be heard in America.”
― Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

“Y'all fucking around. From what I'm seeing, Trump will be reelected President of the United States of America. Do you hear me? DO YOU HEAR ME?”
― A.K. Kuykendall

“Clarence Thomas got his ass on the court. If Brett Kavanaugh gets ousted, THAT'S RACIST.”
― A.K. Kuykendall

“It’s not about where you get yourself in the end. There’s power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Teach, question and wonder about the who, the what, the when, the where, the why / (why not) and the how of everything under the sun and beyond the sun.”
― Jill Telford

“The greatest show of patriotism is speaking truth to power.”
― Njau Kihia

“We don’t need storytellers. We need soothsayers. I never said I am a storyteller. I said I am a soothsayer. I say the sooth.”
― Giannina Braschi, Putinoika

“Just curious what brought you to our fair city, today,” the taller officer said, handing Rome back his papers.
“Do you ask everyone that comes to your fair city why they are visiting,” I asked, feeling anger rising in me. “Or did you decide that we didn’t seem to fit in your fair city?”
“What’s your name, young man?”
“Why?” I asked.
“Again, because I asked.”
“I am a minor. I was taught by my mother not to give my name to people I don’t know,” I said. I added, “If you want to know my name you can call my mother and talk to her. I am sure she would want to know why you, officer Roberts, decided to harass me and my friends on a Saturday afternoon in Half Moon Bay.”

Excerpt From
JUST ONE MO
Mark T. Sneed
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― Mark T. Sneed, Just One Mo

“What we talking about is making a difference. The problem is that we get this crazy idea that what we see in Oakland is everywhere, but it ain’t,” I said. “Life ain’t Gee Dub. Life is what is going on at all those white private schools with the three black teachers and six black custodians and security guards.” I felt my anger growing. “But the only way to change things is to prove their ignorance and racism is wrong.”
“How?”
I didn’t answer for a long moment.
“We cannot let them scare us into just being athletes, entertainers and drug dealers,” I said. “We can be so much more.” I tried to think of the right words. “Remember when we talked about the Bill Gates Millenium Award and y'all said you were going to apply. You should. We should. They have limited our dreams. They have lowered our expectations. One of you could be the first, but that ain’t gonna happen if we don’t try. We can’t knock down the doors that are locked and barred for us without one of us having the key to those locks.”

Excerpt From
JUST ONE MO
Mark T. Sneed
This material may be protected by copyright.”
― Mark T. Sneed, Just One Mo