Quotes By Charles Evers

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

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

I'm against abortion.

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

I'm for prayer in schools.

The Republican Party does not reach out.

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

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.

I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

The Republican Party is not inclusive.

I feel there should be blacks in every Party.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I'm for economic independence.

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

I don't believe in welfare.

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

The main thing I believe in is freedom.

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

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.

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.

I'm a Republican, by the way.

We've begun to get justice.