Quotes from Charles Evers

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

I feel there should be blacks in every Party.

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

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

I don't believe in welfare.

I'm for prayer in schools.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

The Republican Party is not inclusive.

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

The Republican Party does not reach out.

I'm a Republican, by the way.

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.

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.

I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

I'm for economic independence.