A biography for Charles Evershasn’t been written yet.
“I feel there should be blacks in every Party.”
“I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.”
“And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.”
“I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.”
“I'm for economic independence.”
“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.”
“I don't believe in welfare.”
“I'm a Republican, by the way.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 for prayer in schools.”
“The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.”
“I'm against abortion.”