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It is an affront to our present, and it is a bad prescription for our future. History cannot be changed. It cannot be moved like a statue. What is done is done.Mitch Landrieu
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The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity. It sought to tear apart our nation and subjugate our fellow Americans to slavery. This is the history we should never forget and one that we should never again put on a pedestal to be revered.Mitch Landrieu
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We have not erased history; we are becoming part of the city's history by righting the wrong image these monuments represent and crafting a better, more complete future for all our children and for future generations.Mitch Landrieu
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They were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge in this city.Mitch Landrieu
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Centuries-old wounds are still raw because they never healed right in the first place. Here is the essential truth. We are better together than we are apart.Mitch Landrieu
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Instead of revering a four-year brief historical aberration that was called the Confederacy we can celebrate all 300 years of our rich, diverse history as a place named New Orleans and set the tone for the next 300 years.Mitch Landrieu
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The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that has been done, which has not been completed yet.Mitch Landrieu