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