Civil rights activist Bayard Rustin was a complicated guy. Perhaps that’s why I find myself drawn to him and his work. Today The New York Times is running a piece on Rustin by writer James Kirchick. Kirchick is the author...
Bayard Rustin
The History of the Phrase “Speak Truth to Power”
Guy Aiken, a newly minted Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia, has an excellent post at Religion in American History on the history of the phrase “speak truth to power.” It traces its origins to mid-20th-century Quakerism....