Charles Evers's Quotes

The Republican Party does not reach out.

The Republican Party is not inclusive.

This is a racist country.

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

We've begun to get 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.

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

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.

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.

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

I don't believe in welfare.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I feel there should be blacks in every Party.

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

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

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

I'm a Republican, by the way.

I'm against abortion.