Boys Quote by Phil Ochs

Here's to the State of Mississippi,

— Phil Ochs

And the fact that Emmett Till, a young black man, could be found floating down the river in Mississippi, as, indeed, many had been…

— Fred Shuttlesworth

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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 for my state of Mississippi, our governor, Phil Bryant, said the state could not afford the matching funds required to trigger the federal…

— Ronnie Musgrove

[My mother] tried so hard to make life easy for us. Those are the things that forced me to try to do something different…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.

— Fannie Lou Hamer

It would appear that the state of Mississippi has decided to maintain white supremacy by murdering children.

— Roy Wilkins

These people in Mississippi State, they are not "down"; all they need is a chance. And I am determined to give my part not…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

The only thing we took out was the Constitution of the State of Mississippi and the interpretation of the Constitution. We had 63,000 people…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

“From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene, broken by intervals of begged and stolen…

— William Faulkner

“You said you left Mississippi in 1854," Ron says. He turns to Mamuwalde and asks "Were you a runaway slave?" "Not at all," Cindy…

— Daven Anderson

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

— Sarah Addison Allen

While St. Louis is technically regarded as part of the Mid-West, it's actually - geographically and emotionally - more part of the South. I…

— David Sanborn

When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other…

— Cat Cora