Quotes by Charles Evers

• The Republican Party is not inclusive.
• I'm for economic independence.
• I'm for prayer in schools.
• Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.
• It's wrong to kill.
• 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.
• Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.
• The least I can do is show Medgar I still care. And Martin.
• The main thing I believe in is freedom.
• I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.
• This is a racist country.
• We've begun to get justice.
• Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.
• The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.
• 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.
• Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.
• The Republican Party does not reach out.
• 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 abortion.
• I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.
• I don't believe in welfare.
• I feel there should be blacks in every Party.
• I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.
• 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 believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.