Evers Quotes & Sayings

There was never a finer character - charitable and friendly to his foes and ever willing to help a youngster breaking in. — Johnny Evers

The main thing I believe in is freedom. — Charles Evers

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

This was the doorway to the heart of the Great Keep. The one place
any son of Lila Jane Evers Wate would instinctively find his way,
whether or not he was a Wayward.
The library. — Kami Garcia

I don't believe in welfare. — Charles Evers

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

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

Don't measure your wealth by how many things you have. Measure your wealth by how many things you have that you wouldn't take money for. — Myrlie Evers

Our only hope is to control the vote. — Medgar 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 love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent. — Charles Evers

It's wrong to kill. — Charles Evers

You did so, two evers.Twice the ever is, like, the obnoxiousness squared. — Emma Mills

Fear mankind most when he fights with a consuming passion for what he perceives to be true." ~ Demo Cratia. — Farah Evers

Only once you destroy who you think you are can you embrace who you truly are — Soman Chainani

When you hate, the only person that suffers is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care. — Medgar Evers

Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you. — 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

But after Mr. Evers got shot a week ago, lot a colored folk is frustrated in this town. Especially the younger ones, who ain't built up a callus yet. — Kathryn Stockett

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car ... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam. — Medgar Evers

Merger Evers/John F. Kennedy/Malcolm X/Martin Luther King/Robert Kennedy/Che Guevara/Patrice Lamumba/George Jackson/Cynthia Wesley/Addie Mae Collins/Denise McNair/Carole Robertson/Viola Liuzzo
It was a decade marked by death. Violent and inevitable. Funerals became engraved on the brain, intensifying the ephemeral nature of life. For many in the South it was a decade reminiscent of earlier times, when oak trees sighed over their burdens in the wind; Spanish moss draggled blood to the ground; amen corners creaked with grief; and the thrill of being able, once again, to endure unendurable loss produced so profound an ecstasy in mourners that they strutted, without noticing their feet, along the thin backs of benches: their piercing shouts of anguish and joy never interrupted by an inglorious fall. They shared rituals for the dead to be remembered. — Alice Walker

The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home. He wants to do his part to help make his city, state, and nation a better place for everyone, regardless of color and race. — Medgar Evers

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

Celida stood on the top step next to the door with Evers and his girlfriend Rachel. Bauer, three days post-op after his spinal surgery, was there too, talking to Zoe. The rest of his teammates were inside already, along with DeLuca and Travers. It meant the world to him that the guys had come out to pay their respects today. — Kaylea Cross

I just need to get you to the point where you can't think about anything except what I'm making you feel — Shoshanna Evers

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

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive. — 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

This is not exactly what I had in mind when I agreed to miss lunch," Alex said grumpily forty minutes later. He shifted uncomfortably and tried to see what I was doing.
I stared him back into submission. "Wait."
The art room is usually empty Thursday afternoons except for me. Ms. Evers leaves early to teach her UArts class and looks up.Of course, I am one of the few entrusted with the Secret Location of the Key.
A few feet away from where I sat perched on a stool,Alex was posed on the anchient chaise we use for figure drawing. It's a relic, probably from the Palladinetti years: chipped mahogany and dusty velvet, what little remaining stuffing pokes out from a century of holes. I was probably luxurious once. Now it's like sitting on a slightly smelly board. But I'd wanted to sketch Alex as I so often saw him, reclining with his head propped on one hand,listening or talking or coaxing me to put down the glass, already,Ella,and come here. — Melissa Jensen

It was one of those unspoken truths, like you don't make a pie for the Wates because it won't be better than Amma's; you don't sit in front of Sissy Honeycutt in church because she talks the whole time right along with the preacher; and you don't choose the paint color for your house without consulting Mrs. Lincoln, not unless your name happens to be Lila Evers Wate. — Kami Garcia

So I went to history, where I paid a little attention,French, where I paid none, and then to art.
I convinced Ms. Evers that I (a) would benefit from outside time, and (b) should be excused from all further classes because I was running out of time at the archive and I needed to be there ASAP. I have no idea if she believed me. She wrote me a note anyway. — Melissa Jensen

Let life simply unfold, for once in your life, without spinning all those hopeful romantic fantasies. The less time you spend dreaming up a world of happily ever after, the more time you'll actually have to live- no evers or afters required. — Abby McDonald

Raven sighed and looked up the tree. "Maybe it's asleep," he murmured.

Myche grinned. "Want me to take a look?"

Raven blinked. "What?"

His friend gave a mock-suffering sigh. "I'm a squirrel. I know trees. — Mari Evers

The less time you spend dreaming up a world of happily ever after, the more time you'll have to actually live
no evers or afters required. — Abby McDonald

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

Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor. — Charles Evers

Don't give up on your own happy-evers. — Nora Roberts

The Republican Party does not reach out. — Charles Evers

A couple of them even knew he was hung up on her. Namely Evers and Bauer. — Kaylea Cross

Our only hope is to control the ... — Medgar Evers

It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do it some day. — Medgar Evers

When a black Jacksonian looks about his home community, he sees a city of over 150,000, of which 40% is Negro, in which there is not a single Negro policeman or policewoman, school crossing guard, or fireman. — Medgar Evers

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it. — Medgar Evers

These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double, Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. This brief poem, immortalized the Chicago Cubs' double-play combination: Shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance. — Franklin P. Adams

Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe. — Myrlie Evers-Williams

Self discovery is the best investment that you can make. — Michele Scholz-Evers

My favorite umpire is a dead one. — Johnny Evers

Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black. — Charles Evers

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

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

We've begun to get justice. — Charles Evers

I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them. — Medgar Evers

I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting. — Johnny Evers

It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities. — Tate Taylor

This is a racist country. — Charles Evers

I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all. — Myrlie Evers-Williams

Nobody evers seems to realize that a statistic is just a coincidence that has had a lot of experience. — S.L. Varnado

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

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

Words from another person cannot hurt you unless you give them power by taking them into your being, accepting them, and making them yours. — Anne Marie Evers

The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi. — Medgar Evers

Here's an interesting form of murder we came up with: assassination. You know what's interesting about assassination? Well, not only does it change those popularity polls in a big fucking hurry, but it's also interesting to notice who it is we assassinate. Did you ever notice who it is? Stop to think who it is we kill? It's always people who've told us to live together in harmony and try to love one another. Jesus, Gandhi, Lincoln, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, John Lennon, they all said, "Try to live together peacefully." BAM! Right in the fucking head. Apparently we're not ready for that. — George Carlin

Honor is always: Not just when you feel like it. — Mel Evers

The Republican Party is not inclusive. — Charles Evers

I'm a Republican, by the way. — 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

You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea. — Medgar Evers

I was sitting on the bus, and the sign said if you're ready to better your life, come to Medgar Evers College, and I got off the bus and went to Medgar Evers College. — Iyanla Vanzant

The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican. — Charles Evers

A ballplayer has two reputations, one with the other players and one with the fans. The first is based on ability. The second the newspapers give him. — Johnny Evers

Opiates are compounds derived from opium and include morphine, codeine, and a variety of related alkaloids. The term opioid is broader and includes all compounds (alkaloids or peptides) that have affinity for opioid receptors. — Alex S. Evers

I'm for economic independence. — Charles Evers

Freedom has never been free. — Medgar Evers

I'm against abortion. — Charles Evers

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

I'm for prayer in schools. — Charles Evers

Did you ever stop to thnk about all the people we kill? They're always people who tell us to live together in harmony and try to love one another: Jesus, Ghandi, Lincoln, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, John Lennon. They all said: 'Try to live together peacefully.' BAM! Right in the f
in head! Aparently we're not ready for that! — George Carlin

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

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. — Charles Evers

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls. — Johnny Evers