Mississippi Quotes · Page 4

“In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding…

— Kathy Reichs

We hunt in Florida, where I live in Jay. I hunt in Alabama a little bit, on my uncle's land. I go…

— Boo Weekley

His [the President's] earnest desire is, that you may perpetuated and preserved as a nation; and this he believes can only be…

— Andrew Jackson

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and…

— Sarah Addison Allen

Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just…

— Victor LaValle

I am thankful for the strong, united response of our university community to the desecration of the James Meredith statue last year,…

— James Meredith

Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.

— Catherine Deneuve

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

America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

Of course, Mississippi participates in federal matching programs for everything from preserving the post-Civil War home of Jefferson Davis to beaver control.

— Ronnie Musgrove

There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there…

— Isabel Wilkerson

All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it is hoped, to…

— John F. Kennedy

This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.

— Paul Robeson

Clearly we're in historic times here. We have - one of the tributaries of the Mississippi River is a river called the…

— Jay Nixon

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.

— Ruta Sepetys

“You said you left Mississippi in 1854," Ron says. He turns to Mamuwalde and asks "Were you a runaway slave?" "Not at…

— Daven Anderson

We've got to replace the statues of Jefferson Davis and JZ George in the U.S. Capitol, and the people of Mississippi ought…

— Mike Espy

Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing…

— Gregg Harper

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

For example, John Law's Mississippi Company venture printed shares, and the money had gone up in smoke when it had been inscribed…

— Marina Warner

Her family had no such ties. She was able to forge her way into that world. And then to those people, the…

— Rush Limbaugh

The Delta is a conservative place, .. District 28 is a very conservative district. We don't have many conservative districts in the…

— Charles Capps

The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million…

— Charles Kuralt

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

— Jimmy Buffett