Reverend Wright Quotes

#1. Reverend Wright has been my friend and mentor for over 20 years.

Barack Obama

#2. But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality.

Barack Obama

#3. The title of Reverend Wright's sermon that morning was The Audacity of Hope.

Barack Obama

#4. Since I was eight years old, I went to Trinity. I mean, I listened to Reverend Wright since I was a kid and I always heard him preach sermons of love and inspiration.

Will Ferrell

#5. If you go on condemning, your condemnation shows that somewhere there is a wound, and you are feeling jealous - because without jealousy there can be no condemnation. You condemn people because somehow, somewhere, unconsciously you feel they are enjoying themselves and you have missed.

Rajneesh

#6. If you ask any copper why they stick at a job which exposes them to abuse from everyone from petty criminals all the way down to government ministers, they'll say it's the variety.

Ben Aaronovitch

#7. I think a lot of the romantic comedies need to catch up with what's actually kind of happening.

Elizabeth Meriwether

#8. Back in his Chicago Senate days, when he was seeking greater black credibility, Obama was happy enough to attend the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ.

Tina Brown

#9. She couldn't believe losing someone you had known such a short time could feel like losing part of yourself, that it could make food taste wrong and colors seem dull.

Jojo Moyes

#10. Education is lifelong learning adventure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. They're mocking us," I said. "Nonsense. We just fucked so hard we broke your bed. They wish they were us. The natural order of sexual status has been restored.

Kylie Scott

#12. Surprise is the mother of panic.

Nick Murray

#13. Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.

Charles De Gaulle

#14. You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.

Tonya Hurley

#15. The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before.

Nancy Gibbs

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Alison Jackson

#17. You have a chemical imbalance, that is all. If you were a diabetic, would you be ashamed

Ned Vizzini