Charles Evers Quotations

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

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

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

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

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

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

I feel there should be blacks in every Party.

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

I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

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

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

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.

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

The main thing I believe in is freedom.

I'm against abortion.

This is a racist country.

Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.

I'm for prayer in schools.

I'm a Republican, by the way.

I'm for economic independence.

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.

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

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.

The Republican Party does not reach out.

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

The Republican Party is not inclusive.

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

I don't believe in welfare.

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.

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

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

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