Truth Teller #20 Margaret Chase Smith

Truth Teller # 20 Margaret Chase Smith. A Senator from Maine, she was the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress. As a Republican Senator she was the first to challenge McCarthyism, giving a 15 minute speech to the Senate titled “ A Declaration of Conscience“ delivered as McCarthy looked on. Smith endorsed every American's right to criticize, to protest, and to hold unpopular beliefs.

Truth Teller #19 Lord Bertrand Russell

 Mathematician and Philosopher Bertrand Russell was jailed for his opposition to the First World War. Although willing to be jailed for what he believed, he was not dogmatic. He famously remarked “I would never die for my beliefs, I might be wrong.”

Truth Teller #18, Bruce Springsteen

Springsteen delivered these These remarks  in Manchester, England at the beginning of his 2025 European Tour 

Truth Teller #17 G.K. Chesterton

 Chesterton was an English philosopher, apologist for Christianity, author of the Father Brown mystery novels and literary and art critic. He showed an early talent for visual art, but did not finish art school. That was a good move, as he was to develop into a writer of such stature he was cited as an influence by Argentinian great Jorge Luis Borges. As author of as many as 80 books, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1935.