Barack Quote by Jesse Jackson

Sometimes, Barack Obama is Martin Luther King, sometimes, he a black militant from the Sixties, then he's a Baptist minister. He can be so…

— Shelby Steele

Barack Obama didn't say "I only want to be the President of Black people," he said "I want to be the President of the…

— LeCrae

Obama is the rare Democrat who talks easily about faith and values and who does so without upsetting those offended by the mixture of…

— Jacob Weisberg

“When presidential candidate Barack Obama presented himself to the black community, he was not to be believed. It strained credulity to think that a…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

This will play right into Obama's hands. He's humanitarian, compassionate. They'll use this to burnish their, shall we say, 'credibility' with the black community…

— Rush Limbaugh

“I had never seen a black man like Barack Obama. He talked to white people in a new language—as though he actually trusted them…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him.

— Julianne Malveaux

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

— 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…

— Jeremiah Wright

I don't see what the big deal about Obama is. He's just another black man, asking for change.

— Wanda Sykes

Barack Obama is not black America's messiah.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

“The irony of Barack Obama is this: He has become the most successful black politician in American history by avoiding the radioactive racial issues…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates