Charles Evers Quotes

• 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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• It’s wrong to kill.

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• The least I can do is show Medgar I still care. And Martin.

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• Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that’s ever happened to us.

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• The main thing I believe in is freedom.

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• The problem is, the Republican Party hasn’t done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.

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• The Republican Party does not reach out.

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• The Republican Party is not inclusive.

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• Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black.

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• This is a racist country.

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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.

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• We’ve begun to get justice.

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• 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.

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• Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.

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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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