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White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
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The rejected must lead the revival for love and justice
William Barber • We Are Called to Be a Movement
“Their cause must be our cause, too,” Lyndon Johnson said. “Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice.”
Robert A. Caro • Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
“President Kennedy’s eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson’s hammer blows are designed to make men act.”
Robert A. Caro • The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson IV
America will never complete the work of reconstruction—will never even get close to being a more perfect union—until we are honest about her past and the politics of rejection.
William Barber • We Are Called to Be a Movement
People’s Action (whose tagline is “Join our joyous rebellion”) has brought rural and urban poor and working-class families together to campaign for housing justice and healthcare for all. Co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, Reverend William Barber—who has found receptive audiences among struggling Black families in deep-blue cities and struggli
... See moreMatthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
as “the greatest deliberative body in the world,”