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Jeremiah Wright

Jeremiah Alvesta Wright Jr. (called Jerry; born September 22, 1941) is a pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, with a congregation exceeding 6,000. In early 2008, Wright retired after 36 years as the Senior Pastor and no longer has daily responsibilities at the church. Following retirement, Wright's beliefs and preaching were scrutinized when segments of his sermons were publicized in connection with the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. Obama addressed the issues raised by the Wright controversy in his speech entitled "A More Perfect Union".

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White folks' greed runs a world in need.

Greed, Running, Runs, White

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.

Attitude, Believe, Law, Life, Though

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.

Choices, Christian, Decides, Pro Life, Woman

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.

Barack, Different, Politician, Two, World

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.

Brother, Country, Home, Let, Serious, Took

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

Against, Government, Lied, Mean, Stupid

The stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yard! America's chickens are coming home to roost!

America, Front, Home, Stuff, Yard, Yards

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

People, Speak, Pastor, God, Things

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

Doe, Politician, Barack, Politicians, Obama

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.

Controlled, Country, Jesus, Mean, People, Romans

Being at odds with policies is nothing new to me.

Odds, Policy, Nothing New, Nothing, Policies

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.

Arena, Black, Cities, Girl, Ideas, Pulled

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.

Believe, Cities, Faith, Inferior, People, Private

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.

Change, Heaven, People, Signifying, Sound, Working

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

Church, Church Service, Mean, Things, Think, Thinking

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

America, Bless, Damn, God Bless

God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human!

America, Citizens, Damn, God, Human

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.

Defend, Dna, Perceived, Running, White

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.

America, Away, Color, Gone, Ignoring, White

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

America, Killer, Killers, World