And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.
Charles Evers

Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.
Charles Evers

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

Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one.
Charles Evers

I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.
Charles Evers

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.
Charles Evers

I don't believe in welfare.
Charles Evers

I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.
Charles Evers

I feel there should be blacks in every Party.
Charles Evers

I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.
Charles Evers


I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.
Charles Evers

I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.
Charles Evers

I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.
Charles Evers

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

I'm a Republican, by the way.
Charles Evers

I'm against abortion.
Charles Evers

I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.
Charles Evers

I'm for economic independence.
Charles Evers

I'm for prayer in schools.
Charles Evers

Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.
Charles Evers