Mississippi Civil Rights Workers' Murders - 1964 Events of The Mississippi Burning Case

Famous quotes containing the words events, mississippi, burning and/or case:

“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

“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)

“And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.”
—Bible: Hebrew Exodus 21:23.

“And the case of butterflies so rich it looks
As if all summer settled there and died.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)