Charles Evers Quotes

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Charles Evers

Profession : Activist

Birth : September 11, 1922

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

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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I feel there should be blacks in every Party.

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This is a racist country.

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It's wrong to kill.

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I'm for economic independence.

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I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

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

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

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

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We've begun to get justice.

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