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Charles Evers
American
Activist
About the author
The Republican Party is not inclusive.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Republican
#Party
I'm for economic independence.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Independence
I'm for prayer in schools.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Schools
#Prayer
Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Nothing
#Iraq
It's wrong to kill.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Wrong
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,
American
Activist
#Reason
#Republican
#Party
Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Welfare
The least I can do is show Medgar I still care. And Martin.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Care
#Martin
The main thing I believe in is freedom.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Freedom
I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
This is a racist country.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Country
Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#People
#Will
#President
#Woman
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,
American
Activist
#People
#Responsibility
#Job
We've begun to get justice.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Justice
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,
American
Activist
#Want
#Fear
Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Welfare
#Care
The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Country
#Republican
#Party
I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Time
#Country
#Wrong
#Leader
The Republican Party does not reach out.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Republican
#Party
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,
American
Activist
#President
#Country
#Poor
#Democrats
I'm against abortion.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Abortion
Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Republican
I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Republicans
I don't believe in welfare.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Welfare
I feel there should be blacks in every Party.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Party
I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Life
#Love
I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Baby
I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Right
#Heaven
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,
American
Activist
#Republican
#Party
I'm a Republican, by the way.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Republican
I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.
Charles Evers,
American
Activist
#Welfare