William Barber II Quotes
born 1963 United States
- United States
- Academics
- Activists
- Religious leaders
- Socialists
Also known as: Rev William Barber II, Rev. William Barber II, William J. Barber II
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As school buildings in poor communities crumble for lack of investment, America’s billionaires are paying a lower tax rate than the poorest half of households.
Why do we hear so much about crime rates and opioids and gun violence in America, but poverty kills more people than all of those things?
We forget that it was the religion of abolitionists that led them not to pray against slavery but to stand against slavery.
We must learn from those who’ve gone before us as we strive to build a movement that can tackle today’s injustices—and help all of us survive.
The Real Epidemic is Poverty (2020)
It doesn’t say rest on your laurels, but to keep on pushing. In this work, sometimes you get heavy criticism. People do say ugly things, ‘You just want money.’ I just want other people to have health care. You know, Jesus healed everybody and never charged a co-pay.
With its broad sweep, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced us into an unprecedented national emergency. This emergency, however, results from a deeper and much longer term crisis — that of poverty and inequality, and of a society that ignores the needs of 140 million people who are poor or a $400 emergency away from being poor.
Before COVID-19, nearly 700 people died everyday because of poverty and inequality in this country. The frontlines of this pandemic will be the poor and dispossessed - those who do not have access to healthcare, housing, water, decent wages, stable work or child care - and those who are continuing to work in this crisis, meeting our health care and other needs.
Well, you know, when Pence talked last night, he told what my grandmother called a bold-faced lie. The first CARES Act, 83% of the money went to corporations and banks. It did not go to the people.
It was the Civil Rights Movement that said we don’t need to just pray for things to get better in America, we need to march in the street and challenge the injustices of society and declare that segregation was not only a political problem, but a moral problem.