Charles Evers Quotes

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

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

   

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• I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

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

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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 believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

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• I feel there should be blacks in every Party.

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

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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 don’t believe in welfare.

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

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

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• I’m a Republican, by the way.

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• I’m against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

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• I’m against abortion.

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

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• I’m for economic independence.

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• I’m for prayer in schools.

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Charles Evers (34)

Birth:	11th September, 1922
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Politician

About

Charles Evers was born in Decatur in Newton County in east central Mississippi. He is an American activist and politician. In 1969, he became the first African American since the Reconstruction era to have been elected as mayor in a Mississippi city, Fayette in Jefferson County. Thereafter, he ran for governor in 1971 and the United States Senate in 1978, both times as an Independent candidate. Along with his brother, Charles became active in the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, a civil rights organization that also promoted self-help and business ownership.

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