Charles Evers Quotes

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

  Charles Evers

  Thinking, Heaven

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

  Charles Evers

  Funny, Black, Welfare

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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

  Funny, Jobs, Responsibility

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

  Charles Evers

  Care, Welfare, Take Care

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• I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

  Charles Evers

  Believe, Lazy, Laziness

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

  Charles Evers

  Baby, Bobby Kennedy, Delta

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• Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.

  Charles Evers

  Hands, Cotton, Mayors

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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.

  Charles Evers

  Party, Needs, Republican

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

  Charles Evers

  Country, Leader, Splits

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

  Charles Evers

  Care, Show Me, Shows

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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.

  Charles Evers

  Country, Party, Done

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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.

  Charles Evers

  Party, Republican, Reason

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

  Charles Evers

  Black, Republican, Headquarters

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• This is a racist country.

  Charles Evers

  Country, Racist

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

  Charles Evers

  Blessed, Independent, Lord

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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.

  Charles Evers

  Running, Country, Strong

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• The main thing I believe in is freedom.

  Charles Evers

  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

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

  Charles Evers

  Iraq, Responsible

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• The Republican Party does not reach out.

  Charles Evers

  Stars, Party, Doe

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

  Charles Evers

  Social, Program, Social Programs

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• I feel there should be blacks in every Party.

  Charles Evers

  Party, Should, Feels

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• I'm against abortion.

  Charles Evers

  Abortion, Against Abortion

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• I don't believe in welfare.

  Charles Evers

  Believe, Welfare, Don't Believe

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

  Charles Evers

  Clinton, Democrat, Persons

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• I'm a Republican, by the way.

  Charles Evers

  Way, Republican

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