Hearing the story of the oppressed compels truth-loving followers of Jesus to speak out. Public voicing of hidden violence is a key practice of non-violent resistance. Christian Peacemaker Teams and others model for us the Christ-like practice of speaking truth: unpopular, sometimes incendiary – sometimes boring, regular old truth. However, peacemaking as protest is more important than we might initially realize and is therefore likely to draw negative reactions from people close to us as well as from the powerful interests that benefit from the status quo.