Medgar Evers is a true Mississippi hero.

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…

— Tate Taylor

You know what really made me sick? I was in Washington, D.C. at another time reading in a paper where the U.S. gives Byron…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

“Optimistic, because even though the year of Obama's birth Herbert Lee, a black farmer with nine children, was shot in the head for trying…

— Faith Adiele

I don't think my success or me having the opportunity to have success is from our generation. I think it's from the generations before…

— Damon Dash

“There was one story that anger certainly lit the fuse of. In the 1960's, in my home town of Jackson, the civil rights leader…

— Eudora Welty

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…

— Iyanla Vanzant

In California, Jim Jones even staged a shooting of himself. The lesson of this was two-fold. One, that he was a god - he…

— Julia Scheeres

I'm old enough to have lived through a time when Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, Viola Liuzzo, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney,…

— Thomas Hauser

Medgar Evers was assassinated in his driveway retuning from an NAACP meeting in downtown Jackson. And then you go back there years later, and…

— John Lewis

I was in jail when Medgar Evers was murdered and nothing, I mean nothing has been done about that.

— Fannie Lou Hamer

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…

— George Carlin

Cindy-Hyde Smith is hurting Mississippi - our progress and our reputation - and we simply must replace her.

— Mike Espy

I am dedicated to expanding Medicaid in Mississippi.

— Mike Espy

I really don't need anyone to come to Mississippi to generate a vote for me.

— Mike Espy

If you're going to get elected to anything in Mississippi, you have to pay attention to and court the black vote.

— Mike Espy