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Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecture | Rev. Dr. William J. Barber

By William Barber — 2018

The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II spoke on “Poverty, Health and Social Justice” Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018. The joint Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecture and Boyarsky Lecture in Law, Medicine and Ethics coincided with the United Nations World Day of Social Justice.

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Jelani Cobb
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Anand Giridharadas
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FindCenter Quotes ImageTrue peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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FindCenter Quotes ImageIt’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Alexandra Greenwald
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America’s Moral Malady

The nation’s problem isn’t that we don’t have enough money. It’s that we don’t have the moral capacity to face what ails society.

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