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“I stand here struggling for the rights of my people to be full citizens in this country. They are not-in Mississippi. They are not-in Montgomery. That is why I am here today. . . . You want to shut up every colored person who wants to fight for the rights of his people!.”

People Want Persons Country Today Fighting Struggle Rights Citizens Human Rights Shut Up Mississippi Montgomery

Book:Here I Stand

Source: Here I Stand

“I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.”

Thinking Want States Pay Support New York Taxes Lows Program South Folks Discussion Fairness Mississippi Residents Dakota Connecticut South Dakota Federal Taxes

Author:Gail Collins

“Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just as clear about the humor, the intelligence, the tenderness, the brilliance of the folks in DeLisle, Mississippi. A community that's usually wiped off the literary map can't be erased when it's in a book this good.”

Men Book Pain Community Loss Clear Gold Folks Maps Hardship Old Man Tenderness Brilliance Mississippi Alchemist Pain And Loss

Author:Victor LaValle

“In talking about the [Emmett Till murder trial], you have to repeat the atmosphere. This is Mississippi in 1955, with a long history of intimidation of witnesses and fear on the part of blacks to testify, in racial situations in particular. For someone like Mose Wright and others to testify against white defendants in a situation like this was historic.”

Long White Talking Situation Particular Murder Trials Witness Atmosphere Repeats Historic Moses Mississippi Intimidation Emmett Till

Author:Charles Diggs

“The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of long, song-filled voyages, high winds and lonely sunsets.”

Long Romance Song Wind Rivers Lonely Filled Boat Atmosphere Sunset Voyages Mississippi

Book:Fireflies in the Mist

Source: Fireflies in the Mist

“I would get songs sung to me, like 'Old Man River, 'or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At the time, I wished I had a name that blended in more with my surroundings. Now, though, I've really learned to love it. From fifteen, I really liked it. It felt appropriate. Before that, I don't think it quite fitted me. I had to grow into it.”

Thinking Men Kids Song Names Grows Felt Rivers Appropriate Call Me Old Man Fifteen Surroundings Mississippi

Author:River Phoenix

“I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?”

Way Want Wanted Worst Mississippi

Author:Muddy Waters

“I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.”

Knows Way Felt Singing Mississippi

Author:Muddy Waters

“Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.”

School Becoming Projects Summer High School Active Massive Voters Passages Mississippi Rite Rite Of Passage

Author:Danny Glover

“Finally, in the Mississippi state Senate, earmarks are often hidden in bond bills, which I have voted against many times, because our bonded indebtedness is too high and we simply can't afford it. For example, building museums in the middle of a recession makes little sense.”

Littles States Middle Example Building Bills Museums Senate Recessions Mississippi Indebtedness Earmarks Mississippi State

Author:Chris McDaniel

“This is not the party of Reagan. Today the conservative movement took a backseat to liberal Democrats in the state of Mississippi.”

States Today Party Movement Democrat Conservative Mississippi Backseat

Author:Chris McDaniel

“When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.”

Thinking Bigs Kids Growing Up Growing Grew Healthy Eating Grew Up Cooking Greek Southern Mississippi Artichokes Okra

Author:Cat Cora

“Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across time. Neither an obelisk nor a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right.”

Seems Would Be Purpose Majors Concern Rivers Edges Boxes Our Time Significance Lasting Site Monument Mississippi Arches Landmarks Domes Mississippi River

Author:Eero Saarinen

“In Mississippi, you don’t admit that you’re gay. It’s just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.”

Gay South Awkward Mississippi

Author:Lance Bass

“All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom to look at a sleeping child--something of that sort--gives you the same warm nice feeling, I mean.”

Giving Looks Mean Children Feelings Night Dark Sleep Nice Warm Bedroom Mississippi Nice Feeling Sleeping Child

Book:Southern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson

Source: Southern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson

“The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.”

Writing School Night Next Poor Class Stores Christmas Mississippi All Alone Dimes Laurels

Author:Beth Henley

“Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people commit evil acts to enrich themselves further. Harlem, East Los Angeles, the South side of Chicago are not the poorest communities in the United States. According to a new U.S. Bureau of the Census report, the poorest communities are Shannon County, South Dakota, followed by Starr, Texas, and Tunica, Mississippi. Have you ever heard of these residents rioting to protest their living conditions?”

“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 United States, but people all over the world.”

People Knows World States United United States Struggle One Day Mississippi

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans.”

Long Use Home Force Natural Generations Benefits Rivers Tasks Historical Including Preserves Chairs Founders Multiple Future Generation Wildlife Mississippi Mississippi River Task Forces

Author:Ron Kind

“Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.”

Stills White Risk Willing University Mississippi

Author:Constance Baker Motley

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

Thinking Mean West Mississippi Arkansas

Author:Pat Buchanan

“The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.”

Action Social Mouths Distance Wide Mississippi Social Action

Book:Heartland

Source: Heartland

“Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.”

World Way Looks Water Levels Ocean Rivers Amazon Mississippi

Book:All Rivers Flow to the Sea

Source: All Rivers Flow to the Sea

“If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.”

Ifs Want School Lying Race Mississippi

Author:Bennie Thompson

“With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi.”

Mean Country Speak Rivers Shifting Mississippi

Book:Lanterns on the Levee; Recollections of a Planter's Son

Source: Lanterns on the Levee; Recollections of a Planter's Son

“There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 AM on a Thursday night in late August in Shaker Heights, and I bet that you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I'll tell you, it's like ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.”

Feels Able Night Air Late Mouths Sensuality Height Silver Honey Ink New Orleans Moonlight August Mississippi Thursday Shakers Thursday Night

Author:Andrei Codrescu

“I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.”

Play Mother Community Grew Grew Up Theatre Mississippi Suburbia Community Theatre Jackson Mississippi

Author:Beth Henley

“Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.”

Night Special Scene Dialogue Shooting Mississippi Mermaid

Author:Catherine Deneuve

“In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.”

Important Important Things Bars Equipment Mississippi

Book:Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

Source: Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

“They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.”

Different Artist Talent Texas Mississippi Alabama

Author:Ike Turner

“Old black water, keep on rollin' Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?”

Song Black Water Moon Mississippi Popular Song

Author:Patrick Simmons

“I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi.”

Has Beens Lasts Three Justice Week Program Protection Witness Mississippi

Author:Phil Donahue

“Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.”

Lying Sides Land Tongue East Mississippi Bluffs East Side

Author:Knute Nelson

“Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?”

Want Hell Share Fairs Mississippi Fair Share

Author:Charles Rangel

“The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?”

Mean Doe Ends Together Courses Source Flow Rivers Environmental Selection Mississippi

Author:T. S. Eliot

“The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.”

Way Young Used Justice Rights Movement Murder Workers Equality Civil Rights African American Civil Rights Movement Mississippi Intimidation Equality And Justice Civil Right Movement

Author:Charles Rangel

“Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region.”

Business Company Technology Plans Groups Week Defense Firm Regions Impressive Facility Mississippi Aerospace

Author:Roger Wicker

“When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.”

Book Reading Educate Mississippi

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.”

Doe States Courses United United States Percent Golf Forty Agriculture Drains Lawns Golf Course Mississippi

Author:Sylvia Earle

“The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.”

Way Skills Rivers Engineering Mississippi Mississippi River

Author:Mark Twain

“I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.”

Sometimes Worst Rivers West Mississippi Mississippi River

Author:Maya Angelou

“It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.”

People Ifs Mean Care School Jobs Clear Rights Exercise Lawyer Civil Rights Health Care Mississippi Plantations

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stopped working till they dropped, as I fully expect to be doing, and just getting better as musicians and as human beings.”

Humans Guy Hurt Human Beings Musician Models Aging Get Better Mississippi

Author:Bruce Cockburn

“Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico”

South Hotel Mexico Mississippi Tennessee Memphis Gulf Of Mexico

Book:Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

Source: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

“I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.”

Believe Black Poor Female Mississippi

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.”

Littles America House Born Growing Up Growing Tales Grandmother Racist My Grandmother Mississippi Alabama Prairie Little House On The Prairie

Author:David Alan Grier

“Religious people use 10% more pornography than secular people. The biggest consumers of pornography are Utah and Mississippi. All that religious preaching does no good.”

People Doe Use Religion Religious Consumers Preaching Secular Pornography Mississippi Utah

Author:Darrel Ray

“Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation.”

Needs Years Serious Rivers Locks Mississippi Rehabilitation Dams Mississippi River

Author:Ron Kind

“An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal to the entire income of every American living west of the Mississippi. If this trend continues, America will gradually sink into the status of a Third World nation - more unemployment, more shackles on production, more poverty.”

Ifs World Long Government America Nations Poverty Economy Equal Thirds West Rate Productions Spending Income Trends Unemployment Prosperous Mississippi Third World Absorbing Output Shackles

Author:John Hospers

“I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.”

Littles Kids Games Boys Little Kid Mississippi

Author:Jerry Rice

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