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The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither an obelisk nor… — Eero Saarinen
In Mississippi, you don’t admit that you’re gay. It’s just an awkward thing down South, which is sad. — Lance Bass
All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom… — Sherwood Anderson
The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store… — Beth Henley
Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people commit evil acts… — Rush Limbaugh
Here's to the State of Mississippi, — Phil Ochs
One day I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change-not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United… — Fannie Lou Hamer
As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses,… — Ron Kind
Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white. — Constance Baker Motley
I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas. — Pat Buchanan
The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi. — Mort Sahl
Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one… — Alison McGhee
If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.'… — Bennie Thompson
With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god… — William Alexander Percy
There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like… — Andrei Codrescu
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays — Beth Henley
In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment. — Florence King
They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out… — Ike Turner
I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in… — Phil Donahue
Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi. — Knute Nelson
Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi? — Charles Rangel
The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the… — Charles Rangel
Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech… — Roger Wicker
When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there… — Oprah Winfrey

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