Sentence examples for talking truth from inspiring English sources

She enjoyed the world where she plied her trade as an entrepreneur of social change, and, with her mouth spray at hand, she had long since mastered the subterfuges of talking truth to power.

At a ConservativeHome fringe meeting in Manchester, Lord Ashcroft, the former Tory deputy chairman, who now throws his money at polling in marginal seats and enjoys talking truth to power, sounded a warning.

Stewart and Colbert had tapped into something people were yearning for – a voice of reason, talking truth to power – but without being asked to do something, people felt they'd been hung out to dry".

"Larry wasn't necessarily talking truth to power, but he was talking rage to power".

(Though big kudos to him for talking truths about the concussion issue in this magazine).

"He talks truth," said one elderly man.

It seems that we don't care enough to talk truth to power.

Prior to its emergence the trend was not to talk truth to power but to slur the powerless.

There were better writers around, many funnier, several warmer, and some more evocative, but there was no one who was as willing to talk truth to power.

Describing the writer as "one of the greatest 20th-century icons that America produced", he added that "no one talks truth to power like Charles Bukowski".

The chief inspector must talk truth to the justice secretary and to the public about prison conditions as people die in jails, assaults and violence are everyday events, and that spills out into the community affecting us all".