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- Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We… — Bear Bryant
- Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies. — Jimmy Buffett
- It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to… — Martin Van Buren
- The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians… — Martin Van Buren
- I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. — Maya Angelou
- 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
- There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me. — James Meredith
- I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi. — Alice Walker
- The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was… — Mark Twain
- When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be… — Bayard Rustin
- The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their… — Thomas Jefferson