Jeremiah Wright

I do what I do. Barack Obama does what politicians do.

— Jeremiah Wright

Barack Obama says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But…

— 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…

— Jeremiah Wright

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…

— Jeremiah Wright

It gets to be a problem when I decide one position should be the law for everybody. In public life, we [people]…

— Jeremiah Wright

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

— Jeremiah Wright

Price above Principle makes you a Prostitute.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Jeremiah Wright

Faith in public life does not mean that God tells you to bomb another country or to go get Saddam Hussein. Faith…

— Jeremiah Wright

America is still the No. 1 killer in the world.

— Jeremiah Wright

Being at odds with policies is nothing new to me.

— 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.…

— Jeremiah Wright

White folks' greed runs a world in need.

— Jeremiah Wright

Barack Obama's a politician, I'm a pastor. We speak to two different audiences.

— Jeremiah Wright

I think that criticism is unjustified. It's a cute term, but noone shouldn't be criticized for who he is.

— Jeremiah Wright

I think one of the things the church service means is hope.

— Jeremiah Wright

Jesus was a poor, black man who lived in a country and who lived in a culture that was controlled by rich…

— 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…

— 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."…

— Jeremiah Wright

No, no, no, not God bless America — God damn America!

— 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,…

— Jeremiah Wright

I continue to be a pastor who speaks to the people of God about the things of God.

— Jeremiah Wright