Quotes from Jesse Lee Peterson

White men are hated in America because most are conservative Christians, like those who founded and built our great country.

What I discovered is that when God took the anger out of my heart, He also took the fear. I know that telling the truth makes enemies, but my message is right and just, and I have no desire to modify it to please others.

If it weren't for the likes of Sharpton, Jackson, the Congressional Black Caucus, Barack Obama, and the NAACP, racial strife in America would be a distant memory.

It is the responsibility of men and women of God to tell the truth.

Men, it's okay to be a man!

I prefer to heed the wise words of Booker T. Washington: I would permit no man to drag down my soul by making me hate him.

Women need men to be strong, just as Christ is strong for men.

Men need to learn how to deal with women with strength and patience - this is love.

We need all races of men, and decent women, to stand up for what's right, drop anger, and live upright.

Why then does the civil rights establishment avoid addressing the real problems causing black suffering? Because deep down, they are more angry at white people than they are in love with black people.

Ebonics is not a separate language. It is ghetto speech and substandard English. To claim that ebonics is a positive way of communicating for blacks is to condemn blacks to menial jobs and economic inferiority. A person who fails to learn correct language skills is forever handicapped in seeking employment.

When I was growing up in Alabama in the '50s, even though we were poor and the laws were against blacks, we still had a sense of morality.