Charles Evers Quotes

The main thing I believe in is freedom.

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

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.

It's wrong to kill.

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

I'm for prayer in schools.

I'm for economic independence.

I'm against abortion.

I'm a Republican, by the way.

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

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

I feel there should be blacks in every Party.

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

I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

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

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.

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

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

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

I don't believe in welfare.

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

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.