Mississippi Quotes - Page 9

• There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me.

  James Meredith

  Thinking, Civil Rights, Care

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• I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

  Alice Walker

  Justice, Diversity, Live Free

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• One of the things I remember as a child: There was a man named Joe Pulliam. He was a great Christian man; but one time, he was living with a white family and this white family robbed him of what he earned. They didn't pay him anything. This white man gave him $150 to go to the hill, (you see, I lived in the Black Belt of Mississippi)... to get another Negro family. Joe Pulliam knew what this white man had been doing to him so he kept the $150 and didn't go.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Christian, Children, Men

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• 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.

  Chris McDaniel

  Museums, Littles, Bills

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

  Chris McDaniel

  Party, Movement, Today

  "Chris McDaniel Accuses GOP Of ‘Abandoning The Conservative Movement’ After Runoff Loss" by Mollie Reilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2014.

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• 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.

  Eero Saarinen

  Rivers, Arches, Domes

  "Eero Saarinen on His Work: A Selection of Buildings Dating from 1947 to 1964 with Statements by the Architect".

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

  Lance Bass

  Gay, Awkward, South

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• 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.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Children, Nice, Mean

  Sherwood Anderson (1997). “Southern Odyssey: Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson”, p.19, University of Georgia Press

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• 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?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Life, Believe, Reality

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• 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.

  Alison McGhee

  Ocean, Rivers, Water

  Alison McGhee (2013). “All Rivers Flow to the Sea”, p.27, Candlewick Press

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

  Mark Twain

  Engineering, Skills, Rivers

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• Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a marriage as it is about the troubled history of Mississippi. Steve Yarbrough is a formidably talented novelist, shuttling between the past and present with a grace that feels effortless.

  Tom Perrotta

  Wise, Past, Grace

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• Mississippi State has two pretty looking quarterbacks.

  Mike Leach

  Two, States, Quarterback

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• I believe, the NAACP began to try to organize parents of Negro children to file petitions with the boards of education regarding the integration of the school system. You had some very severe economic reprisals against people in Mississippi and in South Carolina. So, in order to try to help to meet some of the physical needs and the economic needs of people in Clarendon County [SC] who had been displaced from the land, and otherwise, and in certain sections of Mississippi, we organized in New York City something called "In Friendship".

  Ella Baker

  New York, Children, Believe

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• The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset this applecart. What I mean by that is, so many things are under the cover that will have to be swept out and shown to this whole world, not just to America. This thing they say of "the land of the free and the home of the brave" is all on paper. It doesn't really mean anything to us. The only way we can make this thing a reality in America is to do all we can to destroy this system and bring this out to the light that has been under the cover all these years.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Mean, Home, Reality

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• I am thankful for the strong, united response of our university community to the desecration of the James Meredith statue last year, confirming our university values of civility and respect. what it is saying is that the only possible justice for a black in the state of Mississippi is the federal government and if there's anything that we don't need it's that being our only means of expecting justice.

  James Meredith

  Strong, Mean, Government

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• From earliest times, water has always been acknowledged as a primary human good and an indispensable natural resource. Around the great rivers of the world, like the Mississippi, great cultures have developed, while over the course of the centuries the prosperity of countless societies has been linked to these waterways. Today, however, the great fluvial systems of every continent are exposed to serious threats, often as a result of man's activity and decisions.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Rivers, Water

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• Each summer, for example, nitrogen and phosphate washing from farmlands in the Mississippi Valley enter the Gulf of Mexico, creating a massive algal bloom covering some 16,000 square kilometers. As the blooms die off, this area-roughly the size of New Jersey-is so deprived of oxygen that no fish survive.

  Lester R. Brown

  Summer, Squares, Oxygen

  Lester R. Brown, Michael Renner (2014). “Vital Signs 1999-2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future”, p.25, Routledge

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• I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather.

  Morgan Freeman

  Heat And Humidity, Weather, Bread

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• I am all about breaking barriers and challenging myself, that is why everything I have done on my resume is different. I have never played a cop again, and I have never played a boxer again since I played Muhammad Ali. That was a challenge, being darker than him, and the film won Best Television Movie and I was a part of that. I was in Mississippi Burning, which won an Oscar.

  Darius McCrary

  Challenges, Different, Burning

  Source: michaelfairmansoaps.com

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• It is hard to look at the amount of damage in the two states and say it's equal, but the time to fight that battle is gone. Without Louisiana and Mississippi working together, Louisiana might have gotten a lot less than that. That's just the reality of politics.

  Tim Ryan

  Fighting, Reality, Two

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• The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.

  John Moody

  Discovery, Gold, East

  John Moody (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed.

  John Moody

  Rivers, East, Railroads

  John Moody (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but mad... I think I see one or two quick blows that will astonish the natives of the South and will convince them that, though to stand behind a big cottonwood and shoot at a passing boat is good sport and safe, it may still reach and kill their friends and families hundreds of miles off. For every bullet shot at a steamboat, I would shoot a thousand 30-pounder Parrots into even helpless towns on Red, Ouachita, Yazoo, or wherever a boat can float or soldier march.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Sports, Thinking, Blow

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• It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.

  Saul Bellow

  Location, Originality, Sometimes

  SAUL BELLOW (1971). “MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET”

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