Comment Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

As I grew older I began to realize that Mississippi really wasn't that bad. The basis for progress has always been there. And the…

— Mike Espy

Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.

— Buddy Guy

The real problem in Mississippi is almost a complete moral breakdown. In order to move Mississippi from the bottom to the top, all we…

— James Meredith

I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.

— Pat Buchanan

I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.

— Patty Jenkins

“East Texas is red dirt – not red, in sober truth, but the orange of rust, which it basically is, ferrous oxide – and…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“Mississippi used to be able to do whatever it wanted to do, until the United States found out about it. And now that Mississippi…

— John Pritchard

Demanding accountability for Mississippi's role in creating an environment that tolerated and bred hateful ideologies and violence is a small, but powerful, step in…

— Mike Espy

“Things have come a long way in Mississippi. That’s the usual shorthand. Perhaps nowhere else in America has made more progress in its race…

— Richard Grant

“ “Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy…If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away, or shot, they will not only tolerate it…

— Deborah Ford

I'm a country guy from Mississippi who keeps it simple.

— Steve McNair

That's why I want to change Mississippi. You don't run away from problems - you just face them.

— Fannie Lou Hamer