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estatua de Coppini en University of Texas at Austin
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Robert E. Lee es una escultura de bronce al aire libre que representa al general estadounidense del mismo nombre por Pompeo Coppini. La escultura fue encargada en 1919 por George W. Littlefield para ser incluida en la Littlefield Fountain en el campus de la University of Texas at Austin. Fue instalada en el South Mall de la universidad en Austin, Texas desde 1933 hasta su remoción en 2017.
“Madam, don't bring up your sons to detest the United States government. Recollect that we form one country now. Abandon all these local animosities, and make your sons Americans.”
“I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.”
“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”
“The questions which for years were in dispute between the State and General Government, and which unhappily were not decided by the dictates of reason, but referred to the decision of war, having been decided against us, it is the part of wisdom to acquiesce in the result, and of candor to recognize the fact.”
“My engagements will not permit me to be present, and I believe if there I could not add anything material to the information existing on the subject. I think it wiser, moreover, not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the example of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered.”
“So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I have rejoiced that slavery is abolished. I believe it will be great for the interests of the south. So fully am I satisfied with this, as regards Virginia especially, that I would cheerfully have lost all I have lost by the war, and have suffered all I have suffered, to have this object attained.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
