Some focus their efforts on
“speaking truth to power,”
hoping that the unjust
and the oppressor
have acted badly
only because they are blind,
and when they see
what they have done,
they will change their ways.
All of history speaks to the
futility of such attempts.
A very different view
and effort is needed:
Speak Truth to the Powerless,
for only through the struggles
of the victims who have
nothing to lose but their chains
can injustice and oppression be
challenged,
defeated,
and a new world be constructed
–a poem by dcn
