Saturday, March 15, 2008

Some of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's most controversial remarks:

"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. . . . America's chickens are coming home to roost."

-- Sermon, September 2001

"We are descendants of Africa, not England. . . . We have a culture that is African in origin -- not European. The Bible we preach from came from a culture that was not English or European."

-- From the 2005 book

"Blow the Trumpet in Zion"

"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no; God damn America! That's in the Bible for killing innocent people."

-- Sermon, 2003

"Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run."

-- Sermon, 2006, delivered

at Howard University

"Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No, he ain't. Bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky."

-- Sermon, January 2008