“The notion of cleansing history seems to me a huge mistake.”

— Mark Sanford

Source: When talking about the removal of Confederate statues according to " I’m a citizen with no country:’ Mark Sanford on turning against Trump and his party https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/23/mark-sanford-republican-anti-trump" (August 23, 2021)

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115th Governor of South Carolina 1960

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