"Republicans have racialized poverty, and Democrats have run from poverty. And we’re forcing them to deal with the reality. We are very political, but we’re not partisan... There is not some separation between Jesus and justice; to be Christian is to be concerned with what’s going on in the world... All the victories we enjoy today—voting rights, Social Security, minimum wage—100 years ago were seen as virtually impossible...Everything we won, people had to start winning in the midst of opposition that looked like it was overwhelming. I believe that’s the moment we’re in right now."
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Quoted in There Is Not Some Separation Between Jesus and Justice. How Rev. William J. Barber II Uses His Faith to Fight for the Poor, by Mary C. Curtis, Time Magazine, (21 Feb 2020)
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