WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Rev. Barber, now on a 22-state speaking tour, will be main speaker at the July 8th Save Our Schools March in D.C. 

Rev. Dr. William Barber, Pres. of the N.C. NAACP

Evangelicalism is about how you deal with policies that affect the poor, the least of these, the hurting. We need to challenge this perverted use of the term evangelicalism (sometimes, they even say "white" evangelicalism) which really has no biblical basis. -- MSNBC 

George Will jumps sinking ship

“This is not my party.” -- PJ Media 

Pope Francis 

"I believe that the Church not only should apologize to the person who is gay whom it has offended,' the Pope told reporters, 'but has to apologize to the poor, to exploited women, to children exploited for labor; it has to ask forgiveness for having blessed many weapons." -- Talk to journalists

 Warriors coach Steve Kerr

“When 90% of our country wants background checks on gun purchases and we’ve got our senate and our house not only voting it down, but using the Bill of Rights as a reason for people to have rights to carry these automatic weapons, and we’re getting people murdered every day at an alarming rate. I just have to get this off my chest, our government is insane. We are insane.” -- Sports Illustrated

Reps. Conyers & Rangel

Reps. John Conyers & Charles Rangel

In 1948, the year we both put on U.S. Army uniforms, Strom Thurmond won 39 electoral votes as the nominee of the Dixiecrats. But Trump’s dangerous provocations—the forced expulsion of 11 million people and the creation of secret police and special religious ghettos for Muslims—represent crimes that we simply did not travel half a world a way to defend. -- TIME

Naomi Klein

If we don’t demand radical change we are headed for a whole world of people searching for a home that no longer exists. -- The Saturday Paper