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To Speak the Truth to Power can be applied today to those in the people's House, the House of Representatives, who are speaking the truth to "the powers that be" in the more senior Senate and in the Executive branch of government. Regardless of which political party controls these branches of government, after an election in which control of the House changes parties, and when the Senate and/or the White House are in the control of the other party, truly the new members of the House can Speak the Truth to Power. Many sayings originate in one group and spread to the general public, from jazz, a movie line, etc. While this saying may have originated with liberals, it probably originated when liberals were in the minority. The more salient feature is not whether the speaker of the saying is liberal or conservative, but whether (s)he is in power or not.
Health review leader promises to ‘speak the truth to power’
... the review was a chance to ‘pause, listen, reflect and improve’ on the proposals before they were passed back to the House of Lords in June ... I come from a sector that speaks truth to power. So people can be assured when they’re making comments to us we will listen to what they say’ (Sir Stephen Bubb).
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It's said by non-English speakers when they're in an English speaking country.
Loretta Lee visited America, and said "Me no speak English."
Brainscan
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The typical jargon used by corporate executives completely out of touch with the peons actually doing the work. Will refer to six sigma, core values, team effort, denominators, profit sharing etc. Meanwhile they are clueless as to how real world operations occur.
Mark the new CEO came in and gave the all-hands meeting a company overview. Unfortunately it was just a bunch of Corporate Douchebag Speak. He's off to Hawaii while I'm pulling OT.
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A weekly friday gather of random thoughts. These thoughts are often jotted down on scratch paper and read aloud by the teacher. This was started by a teacher at Elk Grove High School by the nickname of K -Dogg. This wonderful weekly thing blossomed into a bashing on an infamous nerd who goes by the name of fortman. As of late the bashing has turned to another infamous nerd by the name of BoB, since fortman cosistently cries about these speak out occurences. DJ Jazzy is the one responsible for this abuse. His fellow classmates love his craziness and will hopefully go down in history for his friday speak outs. Some others who assist Dj Jazzy in the bashing include NGP,Lar Lar,The Mick, and the Rodamigo.
"Stay tuned every week for DJ Jazzy's Friday Speak Out!"
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when your in class or anywhere and you cant keep your mouth shut
you have diarea speaking
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In Pop Culture: A phrase adopted by dissidents who've chosen a non-violent approach by using truth to oppose perceived acts of oppression by the government.
Note: The phrase is sometimes misappropriated by some groups with irrational fears.
Historically: The best argument so far is that the phrase spoken using these exact words is attributed to pamphlet called "Speak Truth to Power: a Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence", published in 1955. Older phrases similar in nature with practicality the same meaning dated back much earlier.
I will always speak truth to power when the government tries to oppress my Constitutional freedom to <fill in the blank>.
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