Carolina QuotesIt doesn’t say rest on your laurels, but to keep on pushing. In this work, sometimes you get heavy criticism. People do say ugly things, ‘You just want money.’ I just want other people to have health care. You know, Jesus healed everybody and never charged a co-pay.
William Barber II Connected to the Carolinas
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Quoted in Closest person we have to Martin Luther King Jr.: Pastor-activist William J. Barber wins $625,000 ‘genius’ grant, Washington Post, (5 October 2018)
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“It doesn’t say rest on your laurels, but to keep on pushing.…” William Barber II. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-7DA0DB99E5. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/7da0db99e5
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