Roland S. Martin
Roland S. Martin

February 14, 2026 · 6 min read

Love Is Resistance. Rev. Barber Delivers a Prophetic Rebuke to Authoritarian Politics.

Love Is Resistance. Rev. Barber Delivers a Prophetic Rebuke to Authoritarian Politics.
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Key Takeaways

  • 1We've all come here through great tribulations.
  • 2We've come here with anger and grief—not madness, but righteous anger at the murderous assaults on American democracy and human decency that we've ...
  • 3We're not fighting for normalcy.
  • 4Let us be reminded that in the 3rd century, when an emperor named Claudius—an authoritarian hungry for power who wanted to put his name on every bu...
  • 5But Claudius's plans were frustrated by a priest in Rome named Valentine, a bishop of the church who believed that love was more powerful than an e...

Overview

We've all come here through great tribulations. Our minds are troubled, our hearts are troubled, and in many ways we're heartbroken in this nation. We continue to try to love and love and love, finding ourselves echoing Langston Hughes: "America has never been America to me, but I swear this oath that America will be."

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