Legacy Quote by Mike Espy

If you're going to get elected to anything in Mississippi, you have to pay attention to and court the black vote.

— Mike Espy

In fact, James Meredith who was once the icon of the civil rights movement. He supported me for governor!

— David Duke

The 20th of March in 1964, I went before the Secretary of State to qualify to run as an official candidate for Congress from…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

After the Civil War, Black Mississippians had economic power, voting rights, and citizenship. They used their majority to elect African-Americans to office up and…

— Mike Espy

I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you. I was never the likeliest candidate…

— Barack Obama

I really don't need anyone to come to Mississippi to generate a vote for me.

— Mike Espy

I have great respect for Senator Cochran and the years of service he gave to Mississippi and the nation. I'll do my best to…

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

“Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were under Jim Crow…These figures…

— Michelle Alexander

“They all followed Mississippi’s example, instituting race-veiled voting restrictions, from literacy tests to poll taxes, that would purge their voting rolls of the remaining…

— Ibram X. Kendi

I'm old enough to have lived through a time when Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, Viola Liuzzo, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney,…

— Thomas Hauser

I may be the only person, the only presidential candidate who never carried the state in which he was born.

— George W. Bush

“Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were during Jim Crow. Less…

— Michelle Alexander