"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?"
— William Barber II

January 1, 1970

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Quoted in Poverty 4th Leading Cause of Death in U.S. as Calls Grow for Third Reconstruction: Bishop Barber. ' June 28, 2023.