Charles Evers Quotes

I'm against abortion.

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

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

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

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.

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

This is a racist country.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm for economic independence.

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.

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

The Republican Party does not reach out.

I don't believe in welfare.

I feel there should be blacks in every Party.

I'm for prayer in schools.

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

The main thing I believe in is freedom.

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.

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

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

Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.

I'm a Republican, by the way.

The Republican Party is not inclusive.

I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

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