# "Speaking Truth to power" | ![img \|150](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Mahatma-Gandhi%2C_studio%2C_1931.jpg/320px-Mahatma-Gandhi%2C_studio%2C_1931.jpg) | Speaking truth to power is a non-violent political tactic, employed by dissidents against the received wisdom or propaganda of governments they regard as oppressive, authoritarian or an ideocracy. The phrase originated with a pamphlet, Speak Truth to Power: a Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence, published by the American Friends Service Committee in 1955. Speak Truth To Power is also the title of a global Human Rights initiative under the auspices of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. Practitioners who have campaigned for a more just and truthful world have included Apollonius of Tyana, Vaclav Havel, Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mahatma Gandhi, Bacha Khan, the Dalai Lama and Elie Wiesel. | |-|-| | | wikipedia:: [Speaking truth to power](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaking_truth_to_power) | [[Nonviolence]]