" During the American Revolution, New Yorkers took down the statue of King George. After World War II, Allied troops diligently removed Nazi symbolism from occupied Germany. After the Battle of Baghdad in 2003, American Marines toppled the statute of Saddam Hussein. But after the American Civil War, statutes of the losers started to go up instead. "

― , Down Along with That Devil's Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy