Block Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe

Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

— Mason Cooley

It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time…

— Majora Carter

The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world. It is no…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

— Henry Waxman

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of…

— William Hazlitt

Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person can find…

— Bill Shorten

It occurred to me that memorials shouldn't be grand. If you really want to honor the memory of a tragedy, you shouldn't create areas…

— Clemantine Wamariya

There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful…

— Daniel Libeskind

“These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional,…

— Mitch Landrieu

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

— William Hazlitt