Consciousness Quote by Leon Trotsky

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

— Claes Oldenburg

My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties.

— Mathias Rust

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

— Arnold Bennett

Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

— Mason Cooley

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

— Adolf Hitler

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I…

— Maya Lin

I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization,…

— Nawal El Saadawi

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments…

— John Lothrop Motley

As a protester, I protested because I had to, not because it was exciting. I don't want to get tear-gassed again.

— DeRay Mckesson

“It's not the fact that some people disagree with the protests. That is as much a right as the protests themselves. It is the…

— Carlos Wallace

I was a college student in 1989 when I participated in the demonstration at Tiananmen Square. I was one of the organizers.

— Li Lu

My activism was, and is, unknown, unannounced, but somehow effective.

— Eric Burdon