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

- Charles Evers

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

- Charles Evers

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

- Charles Evers

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.

- 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 believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

- Charles Evers

Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.

- Charles Evers

I'm a Republican, by the way.

- Charles Evers

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

- Charles Evers