Sentence examples for monument removal from inspiring English sources

Landrieu admitted that didn't expect the monument removal process to have taken so long, and the debate to have grown so bitter.

"These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, and the terror that it actually stood for," New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu said in a speech following the city's monument removal.

By now, Americans interested in the Confederate monument removal project have had it drilled into them that the monuments were erected decades after the end of the Civil War as testimonies to white supremacy in all its various manifestations: segregation, disenfranchisement, lynching, peonage, and second-class citizenship across the board.

And his speeches around the monuments' removal were admittedly some of the best I've ever heard from a politician.

How did protesters respond to the monument's removal?

But he denied that the consul general had offered to help the borough in return for the monument's removal.

A federal court decision last month cleared the way for the monument's removal.

The SPLC was among several groups to file a suit calling for the monument's removal, citing the separation of church and state -- complaints that led to Moore's dismissal in 2003.

He said he feared that relocating Watson's statue will lead people to seek the removal of monuments to other historical figures with troubling records.

We acknowledged the pain and deep-seated antagonism that persist among the descendants of slaves and former slaveholders currently exemplified over the retention or removal of monuments and statutes commemorating leaders of the slave owning states of the Confederacy defeated in our earlier Civil War.

Through a comparative examination of the decolonisation of Nairobi's monumental landscape, this paper illustrates how the removal of public monuments from the city was exploited by both the coloniser and the colonised.