Truth Quotes

What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.

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"The price tag hides the true cost - the extraction, the labor, the destruction."
Naomi Klein
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"The loudest voice is not the truest voice - the truth lives in the margins and among the marginalized."
Naomi Klein
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"After years of feeding us lies, the system is starting to slowly realise its own capacity to be destructive."
Arundhati Roy
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"The real catastrophe is not what we destroy, but what we refuse to see."
Arundhati Roy
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"The truth will set you free, but first it will break you."
Arundhati Roy
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"To speak your truth is to take back power that was never supposed to be yours to give away."
Barbara Smith
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"In telling our truths, we give permission to others to tell theirs."
Barbara Smith
"The most radical thing you can do is tell the truth."
Bill McKibben
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"The powerful cannot afford to tell the truth."
Angela Davis
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"Silence is not a strategy; it is a capitulation."
Angela Davis
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"The most radical act is to tell the truth about what is happening to our world."
Winona LaDuke
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"We cannot negotiate with the laws of physics; we must obey them or face the consequences."
Winona LaDuke
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"The earth does not need saving; humanity does. The question is whether we will save ourselves."
Winona LaDuke
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"The great tragedy of the climate crisis is that the mainstream media has failed the public."
James Hansen
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"Truth is on our side when it comes to climate science."
James Hansen
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"We need to speak truth to power about climate change."
James Hansen
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"Truth will set us free from fossil fuel dependence."
James Hansen
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"The most radical thing we can do is tell the truth."
Naomi Klein
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"The most subversive thing is to tell the truth about power."
Naomi Klein
"We need to get our minds around the fact that we are the problem."
Bill McKibben
"The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation and that always seems laden with danger."
Audre Lorde
"I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared even when I fear the response."
Audre Lorde
"The lies we tell ourselves become the architecture of our prisons."
Audre Lorde
"The time we spend in silence costs us more than we know."
Audre Lorde
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"The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out."
Arundhati Roy
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"The most revolutionary act is to tell the truth in a world of lies."
Arundhati Roy
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"We live in the empire of lies and we must be willing to name them."
Arundhati Roy
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"Some people can let things go, but then they are not the right people."
Greta Thunberg
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"I am not here to give you hope. I am here to tell you the truth."
Greta Thunberg
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"There are no shortcuts to solving this crisis."
Greta Thunberg