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In the spring of 2013, seventeen people gathered at the North Carolina state legislature to protest extreme legislation passed by the General Assembly attacking health insurance, unemployment insurance, labor, and voting rights. The ministers, labor, and human rights activists began praying, singing, and chanting, and were ultimately arrested. That group grew into crowds of thousands at successive Moral Mondays rallies, and by summers end nearly 1,000 people had been arrested, making this sustained moral protest one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in U.S. history. The effort grew out of seven years of organizing with more than 160 groups.
Rallies continued in 2014, with a Moral March of 80,000 people in February. Rev. Dr. William Barber II, a pastor and president of the North Carolina Conference of the NAACP, now the largest in the South, became one of the architects of the Forward Together Moral Movement. In a new book, Forward Together, Rev. Barber tells the story of a new fusion civil rights movement, a big tent, in which black and white, gay and straight, rich and poor, old and young, Republicans and Democrats are all welcome.
Rev. Barbers sermons/speeches at the protests, many of them collected in Forward Together, became the inspiration and rallying cry for a new civil rights movement. North Carolina today is at the epicenter of the political and spiritual crisis affecting 21st-century America. What happens here, says Barber, can shift the center of gravity in the American political discourse. Similar movements are now growing in states around the country.
Forward Together captures the essence of what it means to preach in the public square.
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TOGETHER
A MORAL MESSAGE FOR THE NATION
REV. DR. WILLIAM J. BARBER II
WITH BARBARA ZELTER
Copyright 2014 by William J. Barber II.
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Bible quotations marked NRSV are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked NKJV are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Quotations marked Message are from The Message by Eugene H. Peterson, copyright (c) 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Quotations marked ESV are from the ESVBible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version) copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. ESV Text Edition: 2011. The ESV text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. All rights reserved. Scripture texts marked NABRE are taken from the New American Bible, revised edition 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. Scripture quotations marked NET are from NET Bible copyright 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the King James Version Bible.
Cover art: Eric Preston, FusionFilms.org
Cover design: Gabrielle J. Bond
Photos on pages iii, 6, 7, 20, 21, 26, 32, 34, 61, 70, 79, 81, 91, 133, 158 copyright Phil Fonville. Photos on pages vii, 41, 63, 68, 103, 120 copyright Eric Preston. Photo on page 24 copyright Eric Etheridge. Photo on page 1 copyright Sue Sturgis. Photo on page 150 copyright Rob Stephens. Used with permission. All rights reserved.
Lyrics to Lift Every Voice and Sing, written by J. Rosamond Johnson and James Weldon Johnson are used by permission of Edward B. Marks Music Company. All rights reserved.
The views and opinions expressed in FORWARD TOGETHER: A MORAL MESSAGE FOR THE NATION are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of, and should not be attributed to, Chalice Press.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Barber, William J., I I, 1963
Forward together : a moral message for the nation.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8272-4494-8
1. Christianity and politicsNorth Carolina. 2. Christianity and politics--United States. 3. Church and social problemsNorth Carolina. 4. Church and social problemsUnited States. 5. North CarolinaMoral conditions. 6. United StatesMoral conditions. I. Title.
BR516.B33 2014
277.3'083dc23 2014028243
Printed in the U.S.A.
With Mary Evelyn Rider ONeill (Phil Fonville photo)
What is life? Is it to be lived for or dreamed about? Perhaps both.
Maybe our dreaming determines our living to some degree. Yet so much tries to kill our dreams, snatch our dreams, take away our dreams, defer our dreams, and keep our dreams from reality.
Maybe then, we must fight for, pray for, and ask God to grant us the gift of dreaming afresh and anew. Dreaming Gods Dreams! Dreaming, hoping, and delighting in the things of God freshly poured out upon our hearts and minds like the morning dew. How we need it so! Then, perhaps if we dream right, we will live right, and then we shall know the answer to the inquirers quest.
What is life? Is it to be lived or dreamed about, or both?
The Spirit brings the gift of dreaming into the now. What God has hoped, becomes, even if at first just in our thoughts, a new reality. We begin to see and dream in the now what God has always wanted since the beginning. Gods Dreams become our desire when the Spirit is at work.
Men may never understand, but this is what happened deep in the soul place of Sojourner, Mary, Martin, Medgar, Malcolm, Harriet, Fannie Lou, and Mandela. What moved them and so many others?
Gods Dreams! By the Spirit, come take a look.
The cow lying down with the bear. Children playing over the hole of a snake. Lion and lamb frolicking together. Gods Dreams! Humanity redeemed. Grace imparted. Pain pushed away. Tears wiped. Death vanquished. The hungry fed. The hurting healed. Justice ruling. Righteousness prevailing.
Deliverance complete. Satan snared.
Gods Dreams! What a wonder! What a look!
Our lives are transformed when we dream Gods Dreams! No longer mere mundane Movement. Away with despair and life without purpose! We now rise, captivated and controlled by Gods Dreams!
And so, it seems our dreams determine our living, and we live because of our dreams. Oh, Spirit of the living God, invade! Invade! Invade! Invade once again the nightmarish corners of our minds. Loose the prophetic flow into the depths of our being with Gods Dreams
...so that we might live anew and afresh!
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
Dedicated to the genius of all the justice and freedom devotees since 2006 who embraced the vision, worked to design this movement and gave their souls and time to it. Worthy of note also is the huge collection of brilliant otherslawyers, scholars, clergy/theologians, organizers, administrators, interns, volunteers, allieswho keep this movement on course.
CHAPTER 1
Historic Thousands on Jones Street Rally 7: The Need to Know Who We Are in Times Like These
CHAPTER 2
Moral Monday Rally 1: Witness Against Extremism
CHAPTER 3
Moral Monday Rally 2: Healthcare
CHAPTER 4
Moral Monday Rally 4: Equal Protection under the Law
CHAPTER 5
Moral Monday Rallies 5 and 12: Education, Economic Justice, and Voting Rights
CHAPTER 6
Moral Monday Rally 8: Labor, Women, and Economic Justice
CHAPTER 7
Moral Monday Rally 11 (Monday after the Trayvon Martin Case Verdict): United for Women
CHAPTER 8
Moral Monday Rally 13: This Is the Day
CHAPTER 9
Fiftieth Anniversary of March on Washington Rally: Taking the Dream Home
CHAPTER 10
Historic Thousands on Jones Street Rally 8: The Call to Higher Ground
CHAPTER 11
Our Alliance with LGBT Rights: A Look Back
CHAPTER 12
Our Alliance with Labor Union Rights: Coming Together to Go Beyond 13
CHAPTER 13
Beyond Protest to Voter Mobilization
CHAPTER 14
Lessons from the Movement
Moral March on Raleigh 2014 (Eric Preston photo)
Moral messages in the pulpit or the public square are designed not just to be spoken and heard, but to shape the prophetic consciousness of a Movement and of society. To paraphrase the Rev. Dr. James Forbes, longtime pastor of the historic Riverside Church in New York:
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