speak truth to power
verbDefinitions
To address facts to an authority or a superior, especially in the face of risk to oneself.
- He was tired of corporate politics and craved a setting where people spoke truth to power, but, he said, it took him a while to get used to dealing with Dalio.
- “Once, we needed to have a pope who would speak in favour of human rights in Russia and China,” said Massimo Faggioli […]. “You now need someone who can speak truth to American power.”
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