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"Keep the monuments but take Robert E. Lee's monument down because he didn't want it - can put some noted black people up. Therefore everyone will be happy"

"very bad because they had us locked up for no reasson [sic]. Also they wanted slaves to do there [sic] chores. It just made me feel so bad."

"It saddens me to see reminders of past history that represent a dark past for all people that want to enter into the "promise land" of opportunity, liberty, freedom, love. No one wants to be chained or owned by another person. I wish them to be removed."

"Things like these shaped the way I knew history, but it's not a very good history"

"Great to see, enjoy, and remember history each time I visit Richmond"

-Leave our monuments alone! I visit them with my family whenever we're back visiting battlefields. They make me feel like a school boy again, Lee and Jackson were my childhood heroes. The people of Richmond should be.png

"I was so impressed by Monument Avenue when I first came here in 1978. I chose to come to VCU because of the history I saw."

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