Mitch Landrieu

Quotes

• “The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity. It sought to tear apart our nation and subjugate our fell...”
• “The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal...”
• “Instead of revering a four-year brief historical aberration that was called the Confederacy we can celebrate all 300 yea...”
• “We have not erased history; we are becoming part of the city's history by righting the wrong image these monuments repre...”
• “It is an affront to our present, and it is a bad prescription for our future. History cannot be changed. It cannot be mo...”
• “Centuries-old wounds are still raw because they never healed right in the first place. Here is the essential truth. We a...”
• “They were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge...”