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In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other.


Charles Lyell


#artificial #attached #banks #been #both

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


#baby #black #born #challenge #child

Before, the woods had always done so much for me. Once I could actually go out into the woods and communicate with God, or Nature or something. Now that something didn’t come through. It was just not there anymore. More than ever I began to wonder whether God actually existed. Maybe God changed as the individual changed, or perhaps grew as one grew.


Anne Moody


#civil-rights #coming-of-age-in-mississippi #faith #god #nature

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


#attack #away #doing #doing the right thing #had

Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you.


Zebulon Pike


#difficulty #henry #him #his #horses

I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape.


Anne Moody


#mississippi-authors #age

But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out.


Anne Moody


#courage #mississippi-authors #age

As she drove the Trace, each curve revealing a scene rich with life and as picturesque as illustrations from a children's book, Anna was struck again by the beauty of the state. Over her years as a Yankee and a Westerner, she'd heard Mississippi described many ways. Beautiful had never been one of them.


Nevada Barr


#beauty

Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.


Margaret McMullan


#mississippi #young-adult-fiction #life

We know You love us. We love You, too. I mean, six, seven thousand years from now . . . won't make no difference, will it? Everybody gonna be so mixed up by then that far in the future that they all gonna be the same color by then, ain't they?


Larry Brown


#mississippi-authors #race #love






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