Top 34 State Of Mississippi Quotes
#1. In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law.
Phil Ochs
#2. As for my state of Mississippi, our governor, Phil Bryant, said the state could not afford the matching funds required to trigger the federal match for Medicaid expansion. We won't do it even though in 2014, the federal government would pay over $50 for every one dollar Mississippi chips in.
Ronnie Musgrove
#3. It would appear that the state of Mississippi has decided to maintain white supremacy by murdering children.
Roy Wilkins
#4. This is not the party of Reagan. Today the conservative movement took a backseat to liberal Democrats in the state of Mississippi.
Chris McDaniel
#5. The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in my home state of Mississippi, they put me on steroids, thinking they were doing the right thing, and I had a violent reaction.
Mary Ann Mobley
#6. During the canvass in the State of Mississippi, I traveled into different parts of that state, and this is the doctrine that I everywhere uttered: that while I was in favor of building up the colored race, I was not in favor of tearing down the white race.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
#7. She wore heavy sandals, with socks. No kid in the entire state of Mississippi wore black socks in the summer. Shoot, if I wasn't standing smack-dab in the middle of the library, I wouldn't be wearing shoes.
Augusta Scattergood
#8. I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.
Kathryn Stockett
#9. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering in the heat of injustice and oppression, will one day be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#10. I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.
Fannie Lou Hamer
#11. Mississippi State has two pretty looking quarterbacks.
Mike Leach
#12. If a program of physical activity isn't designed to get you stronger or faster or better conditioned by producing a specific stress to which a specific desirable adaptation can occur, you don't get to call it training. It's just exercise.
Mark Rippetoe
#13. It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.
Tilda Swinton
#14. Triumph belongs to thought. Change your thinking and you change your life! You become new!
J.P. Vaswani
#15. I'm fine," Kate said. "In fact, since my last two dates were so awful, things can only get better."
"Bad deduction," Jessie said. "If that were true, I'd be dating Harrison Ford by now.
Jennifer Crusie
#16. I'll have to remember that for the future. When in a life-or-death battle, be sure to club unconscious everyone on your side as early on in the fight as possible, Laura said, laughing.
Mark Walden
#17. From 1882 to 1930, Florida recorded more lynchings of black people (266) than any other state, and from 1900 to 1930, a per capita lynching rate twice that of Mississippi, Georgia, or Louisiana.
Gilbert King
#18. Following this logic, to bomb BASF in Ludwigshafen would be to mock the people who bombed BASF in Brazil. The Latin American comrades feel differently. BASF does as well.
Red Army Faction
#19. A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi ... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
Thurgood Marshall
#20. My son's an idiot. His teacher asked him to spell Mississippi. He asked which one? The river or the state?
Rodney Dangerfield
#21. She'd followed her emotions, allowed her fear to keep her from hearing the will of God and from trusting that will.
MaryLu Tyndall
#22. There's a feeling among some people that the Republican party is harsh on some things.
Paul Singer
#23. Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.
Martin Luther
#24. What are we going to say if tomorrow it occurs to some African state to send its agents into Mississippi and to kidnap one of the leaders of the segregationist movement there? And what are we going to reply if a court in Ghana or the Congo quotes the Eichmann case as precedent?
Hannah Arendt
#25. When my dad came here, he came on a scholarship in the late '60s, and he went to Mississippi State. My dad is not a large man. So there's a little Taiwanese guy walking around Mississippi in, like, 1966, and I cannot imagine what that must have been like.
Kelvin Yu
#26. In 2000, the Mississippi state legislature introduced a bill to make it illegal for a man to have an erection at a strip club even if he is fully dressed.
Steven Lamm
#27. Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing and year-round golf, we also have leading manufacturers like Peavey Electronics and Viking Range Corp.
Gregg Harper
#29. 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
#30. I'm gonna tie you up and kiss that sweet pussy for a while. I want to hear you say my name when you come on my lips.
Christina Lauren
#32. Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#33. The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other.
Lewis Nordan
#34. The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will.
Theodore Roosevelt
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