This is not the party of Reagan. Today the conservative movement took a backseat to liberal Democrats in the state of Mississippi. — Chris McDaniel Copy Share Image
I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap,… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“The Mississippi was now in our possession from its source to its mouth, except in the immediate front of Vicksburg and of… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
The economic importance of small businesses in Mississippi has always been significant, and it's well positioned to increase. — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I feel like I can be myself in L.A. I feel like Mississippi is a little close-minded; not all of Mississippi is,… — Israel Broussard Copy Share Image
I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in Mississippi than in any other state. “You and I know what’s the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on… — Tate Taylor Copy Share Image
Mississippi is a beautiful, powerful state. We have many natural resources: from the fertile soil that produces our crops to the beautiful… — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
“Sir Walter Scott created rank & caste in the South and also reverence for and pride and pleasure in them. Life on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's a potter that lived back in the 1800s, in Biloxi, Mississippi, and his name was George Ohr. He was of Russian… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I mean a real police state just to get a token recognition of a law. It take, it took, I think, 15,000… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously,… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I was in elementary school in Mississippi, and when Katrina hit, my mom put me in home school. So ever since sixth… — Israel Broussard Copy Share Image
I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as… — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
I don't know how many ways I can explain this to y'all but I'm opposed to Obamacare expansion in Mississippi because it… — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
A great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to… — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive… — Roger Wicker Copy Share Image
Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even… — John Moody Copy Share Image
I never will let anyone make, maneuver me into making a distinction between the Mississippi form of discrimination and the New York… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it's a historical novel. If… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before. — Catherine Deneuve Copy Share Image
One day I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change-not only for Mississippi, not only for the people… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and… — Roman Coppola Copy Share Image
The Mississippi coast is not like south Florida, but it always seems warm enough for sandals and short-sleeved shirts, except for now… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
As a teenager growing up during Jim Crow, all I wanted to do was leave Mississippi. But I came back and raised… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
And the fact that Emmett Till, a young black man, could be found floating down the river in Mississippi, as, indeed, many… — Fred Shuttlesworth Copy Share Image
Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
You gotta understand, the state of Mississippi was in rebellion. It had rebelled against the United States...Now that has been a very… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
