Top 35 Quotes & Sayings by Charles Evers

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American activist Charles Evers.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Charles Evers

James Charles Evers was an American civil rights activist, businessman, disc jockey, and politician. Evers was known for his role in the civil rights movement along with his younger brother Medgar Evers. After serving in World War II, Evers began his career as a disc jockey at WHOC in Philadelphia, Mississippi. In 1954, he was made the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) State Voter Registration chairman. After his brother's assassination in 1963, Evers took over his position as field director of the NAACP in Mississippi. In this role, he organized and led many demonstrations for the rights of African Americans.

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