“White folk done took this country. You're in their home, and they're gonna let you know it.You are not now, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be a brother to white folk and if you do not realize that, you are in serious trouble.” IfsKnowsCountryDoneHomeRealizingWhiteTroubleSeriousBrotherFolks Author:Jeremiah Wright
“(The United States) is the same as al-Qaeda, under a different color flag, calling on the name a different God to sanction and approve our murder and our mayhem!” DifferentStatesNamesUnitedUnited StatesColorCallingMurderAlsFlagsSanctionsAl QaedaMayhemDifferent ColorsDifferent Gods Author:Jeremiah Wright
“We [people] need to stop lumping folks together and start living together. Otherwise, we're going to kill each other off because you don't believe what I believe. That's crazy.” PeopleNeedsBelieveTogetherI BelieveCrazyDon't BelieveFolksLiving Together Author:Jeremiah Wright
“You should understand that private faith does not force public decisions. That's how you work at compromise. I haven't given up what I believe, but I live in community - in a city, state, nation, and world - with people who don't believe what I believe. That doesn't make them defective or inferior.” PeopleWorldShouldBelieveDoeStatesGivenForceI BelieveNationsCommunityDecisionCitiesHavensDon't BelieveCompromiseInferiorsGiven UpDefective Author:Jeremiah Wright
“Faith in public life does not mean that God tells you to bomb another country or to go get Saddam Hussein. Faith in public life means that every child, regardless of their religious belief, should have health care and be able to go to school. Because my faith saying I can bomb Iraq is the same as your faith saying you can take over a passenger plane and fly it into the World Trade Center.” WorldShouldMeanChildrenDoeI CanCountryCareAbleSchoolBeliefReligiousShould HaveTradeIraqHealth CarePlanesBombsSaddamHusseinPublic LifePassengersReligious BeliefLife MeansWorld TradeWorld Trade Center Author:Jeremiah Wright
“A woman decides about her body and her God is her business. Women who are pro-life can be just a good a Christian as a woman who is pro-choice and vice versa. You can be a good Christian and be pro-life. You can be a good Christian and be pro-choice.” BodyChristianChoicesVicesVice VersaPro LifeGood ChristianBusiness Woman Author:Jeremiah Wright
“It gets to be a problem when I decide one position should be the law for everybody. In public life, we [people] have to find a way to live together even though we disagree - and some things we will never agree on. But we've got to leave this I'm-going-to-kill-you-because-you-don't-believe-what-I-believe attitude behind.” PeopleWayShouldBelieveProblemTogetherLawI BelieveBehindsAttitudePositionAgreeDon't BelieveDisagreePublic LifeWay To Live Author:Jeremiah Wright
“Faith should be pulled into the public arena when it affects how we live. If it doesn't, it does no earthly good. What does my faith say about the fact that a girl can't be a nuclear physicist because she's black and from the inner city? My faith says, no, that's not what God intended. It pulls it back into the public arena the idea that there's got to be something fair for all of us.” IfsShouldDoeIdeasFactsGirlBlackCitiesFairsNuclearArenaPhysicistInner City Author:Jeremiah Wright
“I think that criticism is unjustified. It's a cute term, but noone shouldn't be criticized for who he is.” ThinkingTermCriticismCuteUnjustified Author:Jeremiah Wright
“Jesus was a poor, black man who lived in a country and who lived in a culture that was controlled by rich white people. The Romans were Italian - which means they were Europeans, which means they were white - and the Romans ran everything in Jesus' country.” PeopleMenMeanCountryCultureJesusBlackWhitePoorRichRanControlledItalian Author:Jeremiah Wright
“I think one of the things the church service means is hope.” ThinkingMeanChurchChurch Service Author:Jeremiah Wright
“Don't tell me about heaven. What about in this life, that there is a better way, that this is not in vain, that it is not Edward Albee or Camus's absurd, the theater of the absurd, it is not Shakespeare - "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" - that life has meaning and that God is still in control, and that God can, and God will, so people of goodwill, working hard, do something about the situation? We can change.” PeopleWayStillsHardHeavenSoundSituationTheaterGods WillAbsurdThis LifeVainFuryBetter WaysGoodwillSignifying Author:Jeremiah Wright
“Barack Obama's a politician, I'm a pastor. We speak to two different audiences.” TwoDifferentSpeakAudiencePoliticianBarackPastor Author:Jeremiah Wright
“Barack Obama says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But they're two different worlds.” WorldTwoDifferentPoliticianBarackPastorDifferent WorldsTwo Different Worlds Author:Jeremiah Wright
“I continue to be a pastor who speaks to the people of God about the things of God.” PeopleSpeakPastor Author:Jeremiah Wright
“The stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yard! America's chickens are coming home to roost!” DoneHomeAmericaStuffFrontsChickensComing HomeYardsRoost Author:Jeremiah Wright
“God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human!” HumansAmericaCitizensDamn Author:Jeremiah Wright
“The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.” PeopleMeanGovernmentStupidColorGenocideLiedVirusesHivInventingStupid Liberal Author:Jeremiah Wright
“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "God Bless America." No, no, no, God d*mn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God d*mn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God d*mn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.” PeopleWantGivingHumansLongGovernmentAmericaLawThreeCitizensDrugBiggerPrisonKillingStrikesSupremeInnocentPatriotismBlessWant UGod BlessGod Bless AmericaThree Strikes Author:Jeremiah Wright
“White folks' greed runs a world in need.” WorldNeedsRunningPoliticsWhiteGreedFolksHemisphereCruise Ships Author:Jeremiah Wright
“In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.” PeopleWorldWayAmericaBlackRealizingWhiteGoneCenturyColorConcernWake UpWestWestern21st CenturyMerryFadedWestern WorldWake Up CallGone Away Author:Jeremiah Wright
“Them Jews aren't going to let (Obama) talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office. ...They will not let him talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is.” YearsFiveBabyOfficeRacismDaughterJewEightFive YearsDucksTalk To MeLameMy BabySpades Author:Jeremiah Wright
“There's white racist DNA running through the synapses of his or her brain tissue. They will kill their own kind, defend the enemies of their kind or anyone who is perceived to be the enemy of the milky white way of life.” WayKindRunningWhiteBrainEnemyRacismRacistDnaTissuesSynapses Author:Jeremiah Wright
“No, no, no, not God bless America — God damn America!” AmericaDamnBlessGod BlessGod Bless America Author:Jeremiah Wright
