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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.
[William Faulkner]: To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Drama I, Netflix 2024
Had a few run-ins with the law in the last couple of years. ibid. hooded man
Ricin has been found on letters mailed to the president. ibid. TV news
Authorities traced those letters to Paul Kevin Curtis of Tupelo, Mississippi. ibid.
He is said to be an Elvis impersonator obsessed with conspiracies. ibid.
I was cleaning in the morgue and guess what I found? A head. ibid. Kevin to wife
If he found them dead body parts, Kevin gonna get to the bottom of it. You know? ibid. barber
We’ve never dealt with anything like this … He would get on this rant about this conspiracy at the hospital where there were body parts. ibid. rozzer
I would go on the dark web and research body part harvesting. ibid. Kevin
His brain would make weird connections. ibid. wife
They say four men havested bones and tendons and heart valves from more than 1,000 bodies. ibid. Fox News
Michael Mastromarino, the mastermind behind this horror. ibid. Kevin
I told you so. I told you all so. ibid. Kevin
Our Mississippi state representative, Steve Holland, owned three of the largest funeral homes in the state of Mississippi. ibid.
It went to the White House. It went to the top. ibid. Steve Holland
[Steve Holland]: Kevin started these conspiracy theories that the medical center and myself have been selling body parts. And I almost choke on my own laughter at such silliness. The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Drama II
This place is fucking cursed. Poverty – it’s everywhere in Mississippi. ibid. Kennedy
And it’s like he’s stepped into a portal to hell filled with secret conspiracies. ibid. family
Right after my children were threatened, weird things started happening in the night. Strangers that I had never noticed before are following me now. ibid. Kevin
My neighbour called and said you’re house is burning down. ibid.
Jack took my band, took my wife, stole all of my gigs, and everyone loved him. ibid.
I was about to step into this monstrous soap opera. ibid. new lady friend
When it comes to the police, he was stalked. He was harrassed. ibid. daughter
Our analysts scrubbed his social media. And there he was. ibid. investigator of ricin attacks
SWAT kicked my door down. At lost last this was my destiny. ibid. Kevin
Ice? I don’t even like rice. ibid. Kevin to rozzers
I said, There is no way he pulled this off. ibid. ex-wife
The number one enemy that has made my life a living hell for the last four or five years is James Everett Dutschke, a Karate instructor. ibid. Kevin
Kevin Curtis remains in custody while the US Government charges him with threatening the life of the President. Meanwhile, two FBI agents begin an investigation into Everett Dutschke as an alternative suspect. The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Drama III, captions
I don’t think I’ve talked to anybody that would fit into the category of Everett Dutschke. ibid.
We were very confident we had got it right the second time. ibid.
A strange Southern tale of Elvis impersonators, organ havesting conspiracies, and internet fights over MENSA certificates. ibid.
One fo the most bizarre cases ever. ibid. TV