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Charles Evers

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


— Charles Evers


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I don't believe in welfare.


— Charles Evers


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


— Charles Evers


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


— Charles Evers


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


— Charles Evers


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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


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


— Charles Evers


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I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.


— Charles Evers


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


— Charles Evers


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I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.


— Charles Evers


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About Charles Evers






Did you know about Charles Evers?

Evers popularized the slogan "Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor. 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. He also self-publiCharles Eversd an autobiography with Grace Halsell in 1971 titled "Evers" PubliCharles Eversd by World Publishing.

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.

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