Sentences with phrase «voice spoke truth to power»

With the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, African - Americans across the country mourned the loss of a man whose voice spoke truth to power and the promise of a better tomorrow for our children and our children's children.

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Although there are parts of the encyclical that are difficult to understand from our modern American perspective (and I say that with the greatest affection), I believe the encyclical speaks as a voice crying in the wilderness, holding out the truth to those who have the power to incarnate it in the world through their policies and actions.

I grew up in the black church tradition, and in the black church tradition, we talk about speaking truth to power in a prophetic voice.

Now it falls to organisations such as Baby Milk Action to speak truth to power — and that responsibility includes voicing our disappointment in The Guardian.

For the change we want in Albany, we need a clear voice unafraid to speak truth to power.

While Nixon (making a creepy voice - cameo appearance) seethes about «treasonable action», newspaper editors head to the supreme court, asserting their constitutional right to speak truth to power.

«Our state and our nation need more fact - based political conversations, more speaking truth to power, more inclusive voices and less partisan rhetoric.»

In response to the phenomenon that science does not speak with one voice to policy but tends to speak many, often conflicting truths, to power, the emergence of a Consensus Model can be observed in an attempt to «rescue» the Linear Model from conflicting certainties and multiple framings.

We marched with hundreds of thousands in the streets, stopped major fossil fuel projects like Energy East, won enormous divestment commitments, and supported powerful front line voices who spoke truth to power.