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RPM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 02:40 PM
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"talking truth to power"
where did this phrase originate?

I have heard it often lately, but am unsure of its origins... Biblical or other literature? someone turn a handy phrase? please help me out...

(and yes - i already googled and looked other places on the internets...)

thx.
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 02:52 PM
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1. It seems to be from the Quakers
Edited on Thu Aug-25-05 02:53 PM by Spazito
From a pamphlet published by them with that title put out in the 1950s.

Here is a link to a pdf and the reference to the phrase 'truth to power' is on page 14.

http://www.pendlehill.org/pdf%20files/php241b.pdf
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Mr.Green93 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 03:00 PM
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2. Try "speaking truth to power"
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