This is what it means:
And sometimes the actions speak louder than words:
Posted on 08/11/2010 3:54:11 PM PDT by CTOCS
Some Global Human Rights Forum and a Book by some Kerry Kennedy
Here is some more info from URBAN DICTIONARY
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=speak%20truth%20to%20power
Apparently Quakers started it but now LEFT uses the phrase to stand up to Conservatives.
Clarence Thomas accuser Anita Hill wrote a book by same name:
http://www.amazon.com/Speaking-Truth-Power-Anita-Hill/dp/0385476272
Here is Greg Gutfeld’s take on Red Eye Mocking Obama for “Speaking Truth to Power”:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,570246,00.html
American Spectator’s take on STP:
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/04/29/speaking-truth-to-power
Need more? Essentially it is a rally monkey of the left.
Wow that’s an old catch phrase, from the 90s even. Basically it means you think the person speaking is doing a good job of getting the message across in a way that will move the masses. Yeah it’s a stupid phrase, generally only used by stupid people.
I always thought it meant the speaker is voicing their desire to help make it come true.
It’s like “consciousness raising.”
Just more leftist claptrap.
“All your base are belong to us”
It originally meant telling the truth would bring one to a place of power, but now when I hear it I know I am about to hear one big whopper of a lie.
Off topic, but speaking of phrases we don’t understand, who can give me a good, serious definition of “social justice?” I never heard the term until Barack Obama started running for president, and now it seems I hear it every day. Wikipedia, usually my go-to resource, gives me only the fuzziest understanding, and I really would appreciate a clear, straightforward definition. I’m a writer and editor, so understanding words and their cultural significance is important to me. (Of course it’s possible this term is such utter bullsh*t that a real definition isn’t possible, but please try.)
Thank you all for the input. We can retire the thread now.
I don't think you'll see a conservative using this phrase, even though the current leadership does not want to hear the truth, such as, using their own words as an "attack", Glow Bull Warming as a farse, Cars for Clunkers as a huge waste and kickback to unions, Nationalized Healthcare as a dismal failure, lower taxes allow the eeeevil "rich" to hire people, etc.
Lefty phrase from some time back. Meant to ennoble leftist activism.
The phrase “to speak truth unto power” has long been associated with the British Civil Service. To be able to “speak truth unto power” (ie give honest and objective advice to ministers) has always been seen as something that all impartial civil servants should be able to do.
The phrase is particularly associated with the eminent historian and academic Professor Peter Hennessy of Queen Mary College London. It is a phrase he has used on many occasions during his distinguished career as a “Whitehall Watcher”
All your base are belong to us........
social justice = redistribution of wealth. Forcible redistribution.
It’s all about presuppositions... (a pre supposition is statements of assumed truth that are believed to be in place before the statement is made...
What are the presuppositions in the Phrase?
1.Speaking truth = I have the truth and the person in power doesnt.
2.That when I speak this “truth” it will have some effect on the person with power.
3. The person in power doesn’t recognize truth for themselves so I have to reveal through my incredible insight “truth”
4. That my opinion is actually wanted.
5. That I will be the one in power when I speak this truth.
6...... and it goes on and on....
http://www.eddriscoll.com/archives/010217.php
“...it dates back to a 1955 Quaker pamphlet concerning the Cold War written by Milton Mayer. As Quaker historian H. Larry Ingle wrote here:
The phrase “speaking truth to power” goes back to 1955, when the American Friends Service Committee published Speak Truth to Power, a pamphlet ii at proposed a new approach to the Cold War. Its title, which came to Friend Milton Mayer toward the end of the week in summer 1954 when the composing committee finished work on the document, has become almost a cliche; it has become common far beyond Quaker circles, often used by people who have no idea of its origins. (One current example: Anita Hill entitled her memoir of her sensational charges of sexual harassment against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, Speaking Truth to Power.)
To speak truth to power sounds so much like an integral part of Quakerism that some modem Friends have simply assumed the phrase goes back to the seventeenth century rather than arriving late in the middle of ours. It reflects what many contemporary Friends would like to believe is the characteristic Quaker stance toward political authority, hallowed in practice if not the exact words. Yet in its origins it was a political statement, entitling an explicitly political document.”
Liberal code for “sticking it to the man.”
The "social" in the phrase is the tell: it refers to distributive justice meted out on the basis of group membership rather than procedural justice employed on the basis of one's own behavior.
Although it was not coined by him, it was popularized by the notorious radio personality, Father Coughlin.
Not enough fake “Journalists” here to recognize that this is a media phrase coined some decades ago by a liberal media type to describe the role of the “press” in confronting (mostly GOP) government officials to further their “agenda for change.”
And therein lies another media phrase for you.
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