Monument Quotes

“Our National life is dependent upon the patriotism and self-sacrifice of our citizens. The structure that we are building is a monument to the spirit of those who have served.”

“There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it.”

“These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, and the terror that it actually stood for.”

“There is nothing in the world as invisible as a monument.”

“For a thing to be a monument, it has to be heroic.”