Truth Teller #16 Shirley Chisholm was the first African American woman elected to the U. S. House of Representatives. In Congress, where...

  Truth Teller #15, Bayard Rustin. A close advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,Rustin was instrumental in organizing The 1963 March on W...

  Truth Teller # 14, Primo Levi ~ 174517 was the number tattooed on Primo Levi’s forearm as part of the Nazi effort to break him, and mill...

Truth Teller #13 Frederick Douglass. Douglass escaped slavery to become one of its greatest foes. An eloquent speaker and writer, he used ...

Truth teller #12: Learned Hand (yes, it was his real name)served the country as a federal judge for many years. A man with a Lincolnesque ...

Truth Teller #11 Bob Dylan. Dylan’s pithy rejection of the idea that the president is above the law seems more on point now than ever. Gi...

Truth Teller #10, Teddy Roosevelt nails it. Historian, naturalist, author, soldier, trust buster, they don’t make ’em like TR any more.

Truth Teller #9, Joseph Welch. In 1954 the US Army accused Sen. Joe McCarthy of improperly pressuring the army into giving special treatment...

Truth Tellers #8, James Baldwin, critic, novelist, essayist, expatriate who rose from an impoverished childhood to become one of America’s ...

Truth is coercive. We acknowledge this with phrases like “I have to say” or “I must admit.” The truth can also be uncomfortable or downright...