Mississippi Freedom

Famous quotes containing the words mississippi and/or freedom:

    “Mississippi: I told you I was no good with a gun.
    Bull: The trouble is Doc, Cole was in front of the gun. The safe place is behind Mississippi when he shoots that thing.”
    —Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)

    “For He that worketh high and wise,
    Nor pauses in his plan,
    Will take the sun out of the skies
    Ere freedom out of man.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)