Moral Agenda
The Higher Ground Moral Declaration provides a moral public policy agenda for the nation.
The publication of the Higher Ground Moral Declaration coincided with the launch of a 2016 National Moral Revival Tour to Redefine Morality in American Politics. The revival, led by The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, President and Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach and the Rev. Dr. James Forbes Jr., National Minister of the Drum Major Institute, President of Healing of the Nations Ministries, and Senior Minister Emeritus of the Riverside Church, was a catalyst for renewed moral activism among faith and community leaders.
The Higher Ground Moral Declaration provides a moral agenda for our nation on issues including democracy and voting rights; poverty and economic justice; workers’ rights; education; healthcare; environmental justice; immigrant rights and challenging xenophobia; criminal justice; LGBTQ rights; and war-mongering and the military. For each issue area, an individual moral and constitutional foundation is established. The positions are neither left nor right, nor conservative or liberal. Rather, they are morally defensible, constitutionally consistent, and economically sound. Most importantly, they represent, as Dr. King urged, a revolution in values.