Mississippi Quotes - Page 2

• I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

  Sam Donaldson

  Years, Age, East

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• The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.

  George Catlin

  Character, Rivers, Water

  George Catlin (2012). “Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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

  Pat Buchanan

  Mean, Thinking, West

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• The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'

  Harold H. Greene

  Morning, Trying, Evening

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• Im concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. Theres no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild.

  Saxby Chambliss

  People, Louisiana, Cost

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

  Constance Baker Motley

  White, Risk, University

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

  Knute Nelson

  Lying, Land, East

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• 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.

  Danny Glover

  Summer, School, Voters

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• 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.

  Beth Henley

  Christmas, Writing, School

  Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. 2005.

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• 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.

  Ike Turner

  Artist, Texas, Different

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

  Catherine Deneuve

  Night, Mermaid, Special

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• Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.

  Patricia Neal

  Born

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• 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.

  Phil Donahue

  Justice, Three, Lasts

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• 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.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Jobs, School, Mean

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• 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.

  Sylvia Earle

  Golf, Agriculture, United States

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• There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

  Mark Twain

  Math, Science, Return

  Life on the Mississippi ch. 17 (1883)

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

  William Faulkner

  Tennessee, Mexico, Memphis

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.11, Modern Library

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• I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

  Jim Harrison

  Race, Michigan, Genuine

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be words on paper, the work of every generation is to make those words mean something, concrete in the lives of our children. And we won't get there as long as kids in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York or Appalachia or the Mississippi delta or the Pine Ridge reservation believe that their lives are somehow worthless.

  Barack Obama

  New York, Children, Believe

  "Baltimore unrest as Obama pushes mentoring program" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. May 5, 2015.

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

  Mort Sahl

  Distance, Mouths, Action

  Mort Sahl (1976). “Heartland”, New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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

  Charles Rangel

  Want, Hell, Share

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• History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

  Matthew Arnold

  Falsehood

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• I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.

  Richard Ford

  Reading, Feelings, Literature

  "Richard Ford: Pulitzer winner, focused reader". Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. September 15, 2012.

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• 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

  Thinking, South, Knows

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• In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law.

  Phil Ochs

  Boys, Years, Law

  Song: Too Many Martyrs, Album: All the News That's Fit to Sing

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