Charles Evers Quotes

#1. And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres. - Author: Charles Evers

#2. I'm for economic independence. - Author: Charles Evers

#3. I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right. - Author: Charles Evers

#4. Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one. - Author: Charles Evers

#5. This is a racist country. - Author: Charles Evers

#6. I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away. - Author: Charles Evers

#7. Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win. - Author: Charles Evers

#8. I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent. - Author: Charles Evers

#9. I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything. - Author: Charles Evers

#10. We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up. - Author: Charles Evers

#11. The main thing I believe in is freedom. - Author: Charles Evers

#12. I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive. - Author: Charles Evers

#13. Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong. - Author: Charles Evers

#14. I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for. - Author: Charles Evers

#15. Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11. - Author: Charles Evers

#16. I don't believe in welfare. - Author: Charles Evers

#17. I'm a Republican, by the way. - Author: Charles Evers

#18. It's wrong to kill. - Author: Charles Evers

#19. Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you. - Author: Charles Evers

#20. I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby. - Author: Charles Evers

#21. I'm against abortion. - Author: Charles Evers

#22. I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive. - Author: Charles Evers

#23. We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it. - Author: Charles Evers

#24. Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor. - Author: Charles Evers

#25. Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us. - Author: Charles Evers

#26. Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black. - Author: Charles Evers

#27. I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person. - Author: Charles Evers

#28. The Republican Party does not reach out. - Author: Charles Evers

#29. I feel there should be blacks in every Party. - Author: Charles Evers

#30. The least I can do is show Medgar I still care. And Martin. - Author: Charles Evers

#31. The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican. - Author: Charles Evers

#32. I'm for prayer in schools. - Author: Charles Evers

#33. The Republican Party is not inclusive. - Author: Charles Evers

#34. So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else. - Author: Charles Evers

#35. We've begun to get justice. - Author: Charles Evers