William Barber
The Catalyst
Ideas with a spark, energy, range and the ability to start things.
Rev. Dr. William Barber is a prominent civil rights leader known for his advocacy on economic justice and voting rights. This interview reveals his passionate commitment to mobilizing communities and addressing systemic injustices, positioning him as a powerful voice for change.
“And he stayed awake that whole sermon. I kept looking at him and he was there awake. He's there awake. He was awake. He was awake. And then afterwards we left and we were walking down the halls of the high school that my mother had integrated, that he had integrated.”
“In 1993 and the last Sunday of July, I borrowed a text from Dr. Sam Proctor, a subject he had preached a sermon entitled Giants Keep Coming. And I acknowledged him but then put it in terms of how David in the Bible faced Goliath at the most inopportune times of his life.”
“Good Samaritan. The title was Sometimes You got the Way Up is Down. That was a paraphrase of it. And he sat there and watched me. And then I preached my bacalot service in my third year of seminary. Because let me look back.”
“The problem is you had the religion of the slave master and then you had the Christian of Jesus as Frederick Douglass and you can never equate the two as just being opposite sides of Christianity. One is it's like you didn't have two armies in America. You had the Confederate terrorists and then you had the army, the Union Army, right?”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 436 — Rev. Dr. William Barber
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