Charles Evers Quotes

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Charles Evers

Profession : Activist

Birth : September 11, 1922

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

Charles Evers

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

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

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

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I'm a Republican, by the way.

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The Republican Party does not reach out.

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I don't believe in welfare.

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

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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'm for prayer in schools.

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

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The Republican Party is not inclusive.

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I'm against abortion.

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

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The main thing I believe in is freedom.

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I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

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

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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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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.

Charles Evers