“To literally put the Confederacy on a pedestal in our most prominent places of honor is an inaccurate recitation of our full past, it is an affront to our present, and it is a bad prescription for our future. . . . “There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it.”
Mitch Landrieu, "We Can’t Walk Away from This Truth," ATLANTIC (May 23, 2017), https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/we-cant-walk-away-from-this-truth/527721/