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"Until our nation's leaders invest the great riches of this nation in ensuring equal justice for all, beginning with the poor and low-wealth of this nation, we cannot be silent," said Rev. Dr. William J. Barber.

The leader of the Poor People’s Campaign will train the next generation of ‘moral fusion leaders’ at the Yale divinity school

This Declaration to Reconstruct American Democracy was adopted at a Mass Poor Peoples and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls as a warning and a call to action.

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His sense of purpose and vision for his life is unobscured and unencumbered. This is a man on a mission, the grandest and most noble of missions: to save a country and his countrymen from themselves, to insist that morality ought to dictate policy.

The reverend's Poor People's Campaign is working to build an America that is the exact opposite of Donald Trump's immoral white nationalist oligarchy.

"We're saying across this country, it's time for people... to march on these Senate offices," ... "We don't need compromise and capitulation. Pass the bill! Break the filibuster!" declared Rev. William Barber.

The Poor People's Campaign and Congressional Progressive Caucus team up to chart a course for the future.