I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered. — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Most men are blinded by the words Bad Bitches and end up settling for less! — Surgeo Bell Copy Share Image
It would appear that the state of Mississippi has decided to maintain white supremacy by murdering children. — Roy Wilkins Copy Share Image
This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen. — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
“The only thing worse than saying something boring is to quote someone else's boring saying” — Lee Owens Copy Share Image
“The boy didn't know where he and his family were, other than one name: Mississippi.” — Larry Brown Copy Share Image
The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things… — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“They cried. Yes, yes, they cried. Cried more tears than the Mississippi could hold, but those tears never washed away their faith…” — Andrew Galasetti Copy Share Image
It can not be done; it shall not be done! I speak for the great masses of the Mississippi Valley, and those… — Richard Parks Bland Copy Share Image
Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all… — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on… — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
We will right the wrongs of the past, and we will do everything in our power to protect the dignity of every… — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A thousand times, when the train slowed or stopped, I thought of jumping off. I wanted to die in a ditch. I… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
My concern was first, for the black people of Mississippi, then I became concerned for black people nationwide, now my concern is… — David Banner Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties,… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw,… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing… — Gregg Harper Copy Share Image
To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
I was just an infant when [Fannie Lou] Hamer spoke - barley even awake in the world. But here she was, pressing… — Leah D. Daughtry Copy Share Image
My personal beliefs were shaped more by experience and by watching the news when I was young: images of angelic-looking college students… — James Vance Copy Share Image
Clearly we're in historic times here. We have - one of the tributaries of the Mississippi River is a river called the… — Jay Nixon Copy Share Image
The living do not see eternity, just as they don't see Everlost, but they sense both in ways that they don't even… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy. The majority of the people in the state… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From earliest times, water has always been acknowledged as a primary human good and an indispensable natural resource. Around the great rivers… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself. — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law. — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image