Their relationship has been like an autocratic leader's to a wise fool, licensed to speak the truth.
To speak the truth is no crime-but to rise up in gratuitous violence at the sound of truth, however offensive, ought to be.
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Russia: Another example of the "failure to speak the truth" in a manner that impinges on the Nation's vital interests came to light in the New York Times last week.
And as long as Americans accept this status quo, and continue electing politicians who refuse to speak the truth about our dire fiscal situation, then the blame should be put squarely on us.
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The South Korean leader not only failed to speak the truth, he failed to speak at all: The former human rights activist said not one word to the North Korean Kim about human rights during the summit in Pyongyang.
Here's the irony: Even as President Obama professed his determination to "speak the truth, " he perpetrated a fraud.
Should that happen, history may record this as a moment when the failure to speak truth to the Chinese Communists in power in Beijing condemned the two nations to conflict down the road.
Some Manning supporters seated behind him wore T-shirts with "truth" written on them, an apparent reference to their desire to let Manning speak the truth about the Iraq war.
If, on the other hand, he meant to speak truth to the growing power of such evil in the world, he better make sure that everyone reads his lips.
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It has fallen to Poland, a non-euro country, to speak truth to the EU's bigger members.
And the direct reports need to know that the leader is giving them the leeway they need to speak up so they must tell the truth.
The best leaders have confidantes who can give it to them straight, speak truth to power, and keep them in the know.
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She wanted to speak out -- she wanted people to know the truth about what was happening in her country.
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Huang is taking it upon himself to fight the good fight in 2012, to speak truth to Fergie, and to call out Marcus Samuelsson for his cultural disrespect.
Mr. MARTIN: And we've got to be--speak truth to power, and that is the president has been pimping God with the faith-based initiative, because faith-based institutions have always been able to get federal dollars, except they had to abide by one very small, insignificant thing called the 1964 civil rights law.
Rather, it should stand apart because the President uses the occasion to speak unvarnished truth to power.
The idea that one could speak truth to power, when that power was both the church and the state in cahoots: Well, who doesn't want to take their hat off to a writer a woman in a country like Ireland, who did that first?
"I'll speak to you in the subversive language of truth, " he said, "fiscal rigour alone will kill us".
In short, it will not be enough for the Armed Services Committee's members to expose the truth about Chuck Hagel's disposition on matters that speak to his competency as the senior civilian defense advisor to President Obama.
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He has used his stature as one of history's best practitioners of chess, the national sport of Russia, to speak truth to power on behalf of millions of his countrymen who have become too intimidated to challenge Putin's systematic liquidation of what passed for democracy there.
For once, stand there and speak the flaming truth that this country needs to pay taxes, spend money, and insure the wealth that is generated goes to the broad public, not the top 1%.
We all are beginning to understand that Geert Wilders is Everyman-every man and woman who believes in the freedom to speak one's mind, to express truth as he sees it without fear of repression or prosecution.
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But I have to speak truth to power from time to time just to clear out the tubes.
Do we need the example of 11-year old Jaycee Lee Dugard to finally speak truth to power?
Throughout her lengthy career as a public intellectual, she has distinguished herself as someone willing to speak truth to a civil rights establishment that regularly puts its own needs before those of the black underclass that it claims to represent.
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The heroes at Penn State were proven to be Sandusky's victims, who bravely came forward to speak truth to power, after power utterly let them down.
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