The Mississippi was now in our possession from its source…

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

— Knute Nelson

“At that time I found that many of the citizens had been living under ground. The ridges upon which Vicksburg is built, and those…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South’s two halves together.

— Jefferson Davis

We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg.

— Roy Barnes

I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as…

— Collis Potter Huntington

“As she drove the Trace, each curve revealing a scene rich with life and as picturesque as illustrations from a children's book, Anna was…

— Nevada Barr

Nothing could stop Mississippi.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“The only thing worse than saying something boring is to quote someone else's boring saying”

— Lee Owens

Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this region of…

— Leonard Boswell

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues…

— Robert Plant

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because…

— Kathryn Stockett

I mean a real police state just to get a token recognition of a law. It take, it took, I think, 15,000 troops and…

— Malcolm X

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

— William Faulkner

“Maybe he was destined to die under the fading shadow of a plastic dinosaur surrounded by pickpockets, hookers, and panhandlers, but at least he’d…

— Richard Kadrey