Mississippi Freedom Democratic

Famous quotes containing the words mississippi, freedom and/or democratic:

    “Listen, my friend, I’ve just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.”
    —Patrick Buchanan (b. 1938)

    “All too soon these feet must hide
    In the prison cells of pride,
    Lose the freedom of the sod,
    Like a colt’s for work be shod,”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    “To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)