“What makes me saying ‘I don’t give a f***,’ different from Patrick Henry saying ‘Give me liberty or give me death?’ What makes my freedom any different than Bosnians or who ever [America] wants to fight for this year?” ~Tupac Shakur (Rapper, Actor, Author, Activist)
“Let the world protest. The job of the church is to pray. Pray he succeeds. Pray that he doesn’t fail. We don’t have anybody in place to take over. Humble themselves and pray.”
~Donnie McClurkin on Donald Trump
“I don’t call myself a white supremacist. I’m a civil rights activists concerned about European-American rights.” ~David Duke, Member and former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan
“Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.” ~I John 4:1
Like statues of Robert E. Lee, Americans of diverse backgrounds may view these pre-Civil Rights emblems through different cultural and historical lenses.