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.
Charles Evers
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9/11 is no comparison to what we've done over there and how we've destroyed the old world with our bombs and how we spread hate and how we took Saddam.
And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.
Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.
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.
But once we broke the Democrats down and took over the seat, I was a national committee member, went to Chicago and took the Party away from the old Democrats.
Clinton was our number one President.
Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one.
Hatred is getting worse for both blacks and whites.
I almost shed tears knowing that they convicted an old racist.
I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.
I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.
I don't believe in welfare.
I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.
I don't think the Republicans say it as much as Democrats, but I think the Democrats say one thing and do another. Most of them are white.
I feel like both parties are not what they used to be or should be.
I feel there should be blacks in every Party.
I have nothing against the Democratic Party.
I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.
I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.
I tell them what they gotta do for our folk and that's to make sure we're included; not superior, but equal.
I think President Bush is way out of line and I don't think he speaks for all Republicans. He doesn't speak for me.
I think that's when we began to realize that President Johnson wasn't really a bad guy.
I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.
I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.
I'll admit that President Bush did appoint Condoleezza Rice. He appointed Powell, but that wasn't enough.
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 a Republican, by the way.
I'm a Republican. I voted for my party.
I'm against abortion.
I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.
I'm against the war. I'm against killing.
I'm for economic independence.
I'm for prayer in schools.
I'm on the executive committee of the Mississippi Republican Party and I will tell Senator Lott that he's wrong for not apologizing for something his great grandparents did to us.
I've lost two brothers on some stupid murder by some crazy racist.
Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.
It's wrong to kill.
Now we got white powerful Mississippians who say, no, you can't do that anymore, and I'm proud of that.
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.
So my thinking was, once we got blacks into the Democratic Party, let's do the same in the Republican Party and make damn sure they don't get away with nothin'.
Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.
That's why I'm with the Republican Party. I want to make sure we have blacks who will stand up in each Party and that's me.
The least I can do is show Medgar I still care. And Martin.
The main thing I believe in is freedom.
The only thing I don't agree with is the war. I think the war is wrong. I think the President is wrong on this.
The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.
The Republican Party does not reach out.
The Republican Party is not inclusive.
The United States Senate is just as guilty as Bush. They went right along with him and gave him billions to continue the war.
The veteran who comes home with no legs and no arms is pushed aside and can't get waited on.
They got a Republican that's not gonna let them run over blacks and get behind closed doors and pass laws that he's not gonna go out and tell people about.
This is a racist country.
This war is wrong and I'm not afraid to say it.
Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black.
We had no more right to go to the war against Iraq than I have to go to war against you.
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.
We've begun to get justice.
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.
Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.
What you're afraid to do Mr. Bush, is to go to the poorest neighborhoods in all the states and find out what district needs the most.
When I became mayor, I had to run as an independent because the Democrats wouldn't allow us to run as a Democrat back in those days.
When I first met the President - well, he wasn't president then, he was vice president - we had a so-called leadership meeting in Washington.
When Megdar was killed, I came back from Chicago and couldn't go inside the airport in Jackson, Mississippi.
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