Charles Evers Quotes
Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.
Evers, Charles, and Andrew Szanton. Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story. John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
His description of the extreme partisanship in England at the time could just as easily describe the American political polarization of 2012—85 years later.
Despite his fears, that is exactly what happened. Ironically, he himself was the focus of much dissatisfaction with the administration, and the Federalists led by Adams and the Democratic Republicans led by Jefferson opposed each other, ousting Adams.
Partisanship and culture wars had reached an extreme point at that time. Even words like “balance” and “moderation” had become anathema to some of the extremists.
Gingrich, a hyper partisan politician who himself was a polarizing figure himself, considered any objective that might gain any partisan advantage at all. Once he actually shut down the government by not appropriating any money in the House to embarrass President Clinton, but this backfired and thereafter Gingrich was pushed out of Congress by his own party.
James Charles Evers was an American civil rights activist, businessman, disc jockey, and politician. Evers was known for his role in the civil rights movement along with his younger brother Medgar Evers. After serving in World War II, Evers began his career as a disc jockey at WHOC in Philadelphia, Mississippi. In 1954, he was made the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) State Voter Registration chairman. After his brother's assassination in 1963, Evers took over his position as field director of the NAACP in Mississippi. In this role, he organized and led many demonstrations for the rights of African Americans.
