Jeremiah Wright

“When you have a prophetic preacher, you have to be very careful to take the sermon and not the soundbites.”

“Barack knows what it means to be a black man in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people.”

“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, not God Bless America. God damn America — that's in the Bible — for killing innocent people.”

“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.”

“Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!”

“Different does not mean deficient.”

“It's not a black thing. It's not a white thing. It's not a yellow thing. It's not a red thing. It's a sin thing.”

“We are not the problem. We are the problem-solvers.”

“I am a pastor of a church that has a commitment to the poor, has a commitment to the oppressed, has a commitment to those who are voiceless.”