Charles Evers quotes:

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

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

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

  • The Republican Party does not reach out.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The Republican Party is not inclusive.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • I'm for economic independence.

  • I don't believe in welfare.

  • This is a racist country.

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

  • I'm for prayer in schools.

  • I'm against abortion.

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

  • I'm a Republican, by the way.

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

  • The main thing I believe in is freedom.

  • I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

  • 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 believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • I feel there should be blacks in every Party.

  • Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.

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