“South Carolina is a great state. We’ve got a lot of history, good and bad. This is our good history.”

South Carolina state Rep. Brandon Cox, regarding the state’s installation of its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn. The statue will honor Robert Smalls, a congressman and ship pilot who helped to rewrite South Carolina’s Constitution to grant civil rights to Black men after the Civil War. (Associated Press — Oct. 22, 2024)