Charles Evers Quotes

#1. And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.

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#2. I'm for economic independence.

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

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

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#5. This is a racist country.

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#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.

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#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.

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#8. I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.

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#9. I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

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#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.

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#11. The main thing I believe in is freedom.

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#12. I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

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#13. Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.

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#14. I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

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#15. Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.

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#16. I don't believe in welfare.

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#17. I'm a Republican, by the way.

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#18. It's wrong to kill.

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#19. Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.

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#20. I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.

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#21. I'm against abortion.

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

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#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.

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#24. Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.

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

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#26. Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black.

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#27. I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.

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#28. The Republican Party does not reach out.

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#29. I feel there should be blacks in every Party.

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#30. The least I can do is show Medgar I still care. And Martin.

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

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#32. I'm for prayer in schools.

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#33. The Republican Party is not inclusive.

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#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.

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#35. We've begun to get justice.

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