Charles Evers Quotes
"I'm for economic independence."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Independence)
"I'm for prayer in schools."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Prayer, Schools)
"Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Iraq, Nothing)
"It's wrong to kill."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Wrong)
"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."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Party, Reason, Republican)
"Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Welfare)
"The least I can do is show Medgar I still care. And Martin."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Care, Martin)
"The main thing I believe in is freedom."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Freedom)
"I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything."
- Charles Evers
"This is a racist country."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Country)
"Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black."
- Charles Evers
(Related: People, President, Will, Woman)
"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."
- Charles Evers
(Related: People, Job, Responsibility)
"We've begun to get justice."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Justice)
"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."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Fear, Want)
"Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Care, Welfare)
"The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Country, Party, Republican)
"I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive."
- Charles Evers
"And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres."
- Charles Evers
"Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Time, Leader, Country, Wrong)
"The Republican Party does not reach out."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Party, Republican)
"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."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Country, Democrats, Poor, President)
"I'm against abortion."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Abortion)
"Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Republican)
"I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Republicans)
"I don't believe in welfare."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Welfare)
"I feel there should be blacks in every Party."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Party)
"I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Life, Love)
"I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person."
- Charles Evers
"I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Baby)
"I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Heaven, Right)
"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."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Party, Republican)
"I'm a Republican, by the way."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Republican)
"I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Welfare)