Friday, July 2, 2010

A journey down memory lane with Obama's mentor and pastor...

"Well, my pastor [Jeremiah Wright] is certainly someone who I have an enormous amount of respect for... Father Michael Pfleger is a dear friend, and somebody I interact with closely."
Barack Obama

"God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human."
Obama Mentor - Jeremiah Wright

"It is incontestable and deplorable that [African Americans] have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society."
Obama Mentor - Jeremiah Wright

"The question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist will we be."
Obama Mentor - Jeremiah Wright

"All of America's wealth today could not adequately compensate [African Americans] for [their] centuries of exploitation and humiliation."
Obama Mentor - Jeremiah Wright

"God didn't call American to do what she's doing in the world now. God didn't call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war... And we are criminals in that war. We have committed more war crimes almost than any other nation in the world and we won't stop because of our pride, our arrogance as a nation"
Obama Mentor - Jeremiah Wright

"I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the [inner cities] without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government."
Obama Mentor - Jeremiah Wright

"It was because of these newfound understandings (at Trinity under Wright) -- that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking, disengage from the battle for economic and social justice...that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity...and be baptized."
Barack Obama

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