1.
I'm against abortion.
Charles Evers
2.
I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.
Charles Evers
3.
Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.
Charles Evers
4.
I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.
Charles Evers
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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
6.
I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.
Charles Evers
7.
Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.
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8.
This is a racist country.
Charles Evers
9.
I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.
Charles Evers
10.
I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.
Charles Evers
11.
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
12.
The least I can do is show Medgar I still care. And Martin.
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13.
Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one.
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14.
Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.
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15.
Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.
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16.
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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17.
The Republican Party does not reach out.
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18.
I'm for economic independence.
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19.
I don't believe in welfare.
Charles Evers
20.
I feel there should be blacks in every Party.
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21.
I'm for prayer in schools.
Charles Evers
22.
Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.
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23.
The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.
Charles Evers
24.
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
25.
The main thing I believe in is freedom.
Charles Evers
26.
I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.
Charles Evers
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The Republican Party is not inclusive.
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28.
I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.
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I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.
Charles Evers
30.
I'm a Republican, by the way.
Charles Evers
