Charles Evers famous quotes
03-28-2025
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I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.
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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.
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I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.
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The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.
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The least I can do is show Medgar I still care. And Martin.
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Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.
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Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.
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Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.
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I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.
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I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.
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Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.
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Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one.
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Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.
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I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.
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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.
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I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.
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I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.
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I feel there should be blacks in every Party.
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I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.
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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.
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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
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