#mississippi

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told. ↗

— Bennie Thompson

#biggest #ever #go #lie #mississippi

In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes, there is commercial navigation on it, and there will be tomorrow. ↗

— Ron Kind

#bill #commercial #i #i think #legislation

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#counterfeit #even #flag #legalized #mississippi

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#could #elvis #hippies #hips #his

Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation. ↗

— Ron Kind

#locks #many #mississippi #mississippi river #most

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#exports #illinois #mississippi #mississippi river #percent

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#charleston #first #first thing #hospital #i

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#education #executions #first #funding #mississippi

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

— Knute Nelson

#east #east side #into #land #large

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#color #felt #first #first time #full