Obelisks don't grow from the soil, and stone men and iron horses are never built without purpose.

Confederate statues belong in a historical museum, not in a place of honor.

On Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., there are statues of five Confederate luminaries and then, incongruously in this company, one of Arthur Ashe.

Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.

There are among us those that would criticize our Confederate ancestors. Would you allow a stranger to come into your house and criticize your little ones? I say it's not whether we should be ashamed of our fathers and mothers of the Old Confederacy. I say it's a question of whether they should be ashamed of us.

The Confederate flag represents the same thing to blacks as the Nazi flag represents to Jews,