Accountability Quote by Mike Espy

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

History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

— Matthew Arnold

“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

Against the tyranny of forgetting, educators, young people, social activists, public intellectuals, workers and others can work to make visible and oppose the long…

— Henry Giroux

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…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

“When a congressional committee reported in February on the Mississippi bloodshed, it concluded that the nation had arrived at a crossroads and “must either…

— Ron Chernow

I will stand up for Mississippi like no one has done before. My voice will resonate most strongly in our struggling communities.

— Mike Espy

I think there will be great leaders emerging from the State of Mississippi. The people that have the experience to know and the people…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

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

I am thankful for the strong, united response of our university community to the desecration of the James Meredith statue last year, confirming our…

— James Meredith

“King had marched six weeks earlier through the Mississippi town where the civil rights workers Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner were murdered. He had called…

— Rick Perlstein

You gotta understand, the state of Mississippi was in rebellion. It had rebelled against the United States...Now that has been a very difficult story…

— James Meredith