Mississippi Quotes

• Para entender el mundo, primero hay que entender un lugar como Mississippi.

  William Faulkner

  Reality, World, Firsts

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• Sueño con que un día, en las colinas rojas de Georgia, los hijos de antiguos esclavos y los hijos de antiguos esclavistas puedan sentarse juntos a la mesa de la fraternidad. Sueño con que un día, incluso el estado de Mississippi, un estado sofocado por el calor de la injusticia, sofocado por el calor de la opresión, se transforme en un oasis de libertad y justicia. Sueño que mis cuatro hijos pequeños vivirán algún día en una nación en la que no se les juzgará por el color de su piel, sino por el contenido de su carácter. Hoy tengo un sueño.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sueño, Niños, Carácter

  Discurso en la Marcha por los Derechos Civiles, Washington, D.C., 28 de agosto de 1963

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• Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher, who said we should boycott the buses. You had people like Fannie Lou Hamer; Delta, Mississippi.

  John Lewis

  Teacher, Kings, Thinking

  "The Long March Of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith on MTV News' "The Stakes" podcast, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

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• One day I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change-not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United States, but people all over the world.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Struggle, People, One Day

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• These people in Mississippi State, they are not "down"; all they need is a chance. And I am determined to give my part not for what the Movement can do for me, but what I can do for the Movement to bring about a change in the State of Mississippi.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Giving, People, Needs

  Fuente: www.encyclopedia.com

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• Jesmyn Ward es alquimista. Transmuta el dolor y la pérdida en oro. Los hombres que cosechamos ilustra las penurias pero, afortunadamente, es igual de claro sobre el humor, la inteligencia, la ternura y la brillantez de la gente de DeLisle, Mississippi. Una comunidad que suele ser borrada del mapa literario no puede ser borrada cuando aparece en un libro tan bueno.

  Victor LaValle

  Dolor, Libro, Pérdida

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• I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?

  Aguas turbias

  Want, Way, Worst

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• Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises an ill word about her around me, unless she is their mother too.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Mother, Complaining, Want

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.469, Penguin

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• Nothing could stop Mississippi.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”

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• 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

  Winning, Race, Firsts

  "Kinky Friedman Talks with Bill O'Reilly About Why He Wants to be Governor of Texas". The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. March 14, 2005.

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• She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Southern, Tears, Peaches

  Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.76, Bantam

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• Elvis era el único hombre del noreste de Mississippi que podía mover las caderas y seguir siendo querido por paletos, policías y hippies.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Hippie, Redneck, Men

  Canción: Ostras Y Perlas, Album: Beach House on the Moon, 1999

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• Recuerdo que, una vez, un hombre vino a verme después de que los estudiantes empezaran a trabajar en Mississippi y me dijo que los blancos se estaban cansando y se estaban poniendo tensos y que podía pasar cualquier cosa. Bueno, le pregunté "¿cuánto tiempo cree que llevamos cansados? He estado cansado durante 46 años y mis padres estaban cansados antes que yo y sus padres estaban cansados, y siempre he querido hacer algo que ayudara a algunas de las cosas que veía que sucedían entre los negros y que no me gustaban y no me gustan ahora.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Tired, Men, Thinking

  Fuente: www.encyclopedia.com

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• The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

  Stokely Carmichael

  Running, White, Scared

  Address at March Against Fear, 1966.

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• Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.

  Steve Harvey

  Correr, Pensar, Personas

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Educación, Libro, Lectura

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• Simultáneamente con el establecimiento de la Constitución, Virginia cedió a Estados Unidos sus dominios, que entonces se extendían hasta el Mississippi, e incluso se afirmaba que llegaban hasta el océano Pacífico.

  William H. Seward

  Ocean, Virginia, United States

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• I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

  Beth Henley

  Mother, Play, Community Theatre

  "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.

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• This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.

  Paul Robeson

  Gobierno, Gente, Estados Unidos

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• En Rusia me sentí por primera vez como un ser humano de pleno derecho. Sin prejuicios de color como en Mississippi, sin prejuicios de color como en Washington. Fue la primera vez que me sentí como un ser humano.

  Paul Robeson

  Russia, Color, Prejudice

  Testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, June 12, 1956.

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• 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

  Years, Rivers, Needs

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• Por supuesto que era mi ídolo, Son House. Creo que hizo mucho por el Mississippi.

  Aguas turbias

  Hijo, Pensamiento, Idolos

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• Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

  Bear Bryant

  Technology, Texas, Lost Ones

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• The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi.

  Martin Van Buren

  Home, Successful, Government

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.18

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• It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.

  Martin Van Buren

  Home, Able, West

  Martin Van Buren (1969). "Martin Van Buren, 1782-1862: cronología-documentos-ayudas bibliográficas".

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