A better Mississippi and a better America is in our future - if we fight for it. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
If you're going to get elected to anything in Mississippi, you have to pay attention to and court the black vote. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
“Everything east of the Mississippi is west of the Mississippi, if you just keep going.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi? — Charles Rangel Copy Share Image
I grew up in Kilmichael, Mississippi. It's a dot on the map 100 miles north of Jackson. — Grace Hightower Copy Share Image
We need a governor focused on job creation, bringing better and higher paying jobs to Mississippi. — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
“She wasn't sure what Mississippi was, but it must be a horrible thing if it was used as a mantra for the… — John Ringo Copy Share Image
I lived in a small city on the Mississippi River across from Iowa, so I didn't have a country upbringing, but in… — Lissie 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
Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and… — William H. Seward 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
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
It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I can't speak for the Kathryn Stockett, but I would guess that she feels proud of the progress the South has made… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
I hear people say all the time, "I'm not really religious, but I consider myself spiritual." I definitely have always been spiritual,… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf.… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Take Washington, D.C., which spends over $10,000 per student for education whose student achievement would be dead last if Mississippi chose to… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The real problem in Mississippi is almost a complete moral breakdown. In order to move Mississippi from the bottom to the top,… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
“And there was no entertainment for them at night. They were too poor to own a television set. But they seemed content.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now. — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me. — James Meredith Copy Share Image
What we need is a good salesman for Mississippi, someone who can effectively represent our interests. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk. — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
When I moved to Mississippi, I was playing in high school, and there wasn't a lot of talent around me. I figured… — Devin Booker Copy Share Image
I will stand up for Mississippi like no one has done before. My voice will resonate most strongly in our struggling communities. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas,… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
My mom's collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I'm not just saying that because she's… — Santigold 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
I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image