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It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we call this a free country when I am afraid to go to sleep in my own home in Mississippi? ... I might not live two hours after I get back home, but I want to be a part of setting the Negro free in Mississippi. Fannie Lou Hamer, cited Hay Mills ‘This Little Light of Mine’
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; attributions inc Tiger Woods
I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for? Muddy Waters
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. William Faulkner
The Mississippi meanders down the spine of America. Bob Dodson
When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built. Mark Twain
The Mississippi is well worth reading about. It is not a commonplace river, but on the contrary is in all ways remarkable. Considering the Missouri its main branch, it is the longest river in the world — four thousand three hundred miles. It seems safe to say that it is also the crookedest river in the world, since in one part of its journey it uses up one thousand three hundred miles to cover the same ground that the crow would fly over in six hundred and seventy-five. Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi ch1
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oölitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. ibid. ch17
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
Mississippi: This state was segregated: it was Us and Them. Jim Crow may be long behind us but the state is still separate, still divided … Is this tribalism part of human nature? The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman s1e2: Us and Them, National Geographic 2017
The massive, muddy Mississippi, the heart and soul of America’s deep south. The river has inspired writers and musicians for generations. It’s the familiar face of the Mississippi known the world over. Yet this is in fact just the last stretch of a truly vast river system. The Mississippi is an enormous network of waterways; it reaches into 31 states gathering water for nearly half the USA. Earth’s Great Rivers III: Mississippi, BBC 2019
Winter is especially hard for Yellowstone’s Coyotes. ibid.
In Mississippi in 1866 one fifth of the state’s entire budget was spent on artificial limbs. Ken Burns, The Civil War: The Better Angels of Our Nature, PBS 1990
‘Two local men confronted authorities with a rather bizarre story. Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker told of a strange craft landing near their fishing site and being taken aboard by three unearthly creatures.’ Files of the Unexplained I: Pascagoula Alien Abduction, TV news, Netflix 2024
On the evening of October 11th 1973 Charlie Hickson and Calvin Parker were fishing on a river and claimed to have had an otherworldly encounter. ibid.
‘There was two men came into the sheriff’s department approximately 8:30, 9 o’clock; they were all excited, upset, wantin’ to climb the walls, hysterical, cryin’ …’ ibid. Sheriff Fred Diamond
Their story never changed. ibid.