Editing Peace (section)

=== Speaking truth to power ===
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Speaking truth to power is a [[Nonviolence|non-violent]] political tactic, employed by [[dissidents]] against the [[received wisdom]] or [[propaganda]] of governments they regard as oppressive, [[authoritarian]] or an [[ideocracy]]. Practitioners who have campaigned for a more just and truthful world have included [[Apollonius of Tyana]], [[Vaclav Havel]],<ref>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. {{ISBN|0-87332-761-6}}.</ref> [[Nelson Mandela]], [[Archbishop Desmond Tutu]], [[Mahatma Gandhi]], [[Bacha Khan]], and the [[14th Dalai Lama|Dalai Lama]].<ref>Nan Richardson (ed), [[Kerry Kennedy]] and [[Eddie Adams (photographer)|Eddie Adams]], 'Speak Truth to Power', Umbrage, 2003, introduction.</ref>

The phrase originated with a pamphlet, ''[[American Friends Service Committee#History|Speak Truth to Power: a Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence]]'', published by the [[American Friends Service Committee]] in 1955. A contributor of the pamphlet's contents was civil rights activist [[Bayard Rustin]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/speaktruthtopowe00amer/page/n3/mode/2up |title=Speak truth to power A Quaker search for an alternative to violence |date=1955 |publisher=American Friends Service Committee |access-date=25 April 2024}}</ref><ref>According to Fea (2017), 'Rustin and his co-authors expunged Rustin’s name from the pamphlet because of his arrest on charges of committing a homosexual act in 1953.'[https://currentpub.com/2017/08/26/the-history-of-the-phrase-speak-truth-to-power/ The History of the Phrase “Speak Truth to Power”]</ref>