by Susan | Jun 24, 2019 | Monuments
In September 2017 the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines unveiled a statue of the late human rights lawyer Jose “Pepe” Diokno, appointed by President Corazon Aquino as the founding chairman of the country’s watchdog agency against rights...
by Susan | Jun 17, 2019 | Monuments
Thomas Paine, philosopher of the American and French Revolutions, author of “Common Sense,” has been a controversial figure when it comes to monuments. In 1942 a Paine statue was proposed for Fairmount Park in Philadelphia but the idea was shot down because his book...
by Susan | Jun 10, 2019 | Monuments
A Quaker at a time when Quakers were banned from Massachusetts, Dyer was eventually hanged for her insistence on religious liberty in the English colony. The statue by Sylvia Shaw Judson went up in 1959 at a descendant’s bequest. It’s diagonally across...
by Susan | Jun 3, 2019 | Monuments
A memorial to the English Quaker, abolitionist and activist Joseph Sturge (1793–1859) was unveiled before a crowd of 12,000 people on 4 June 1862 at Five Ways, Birmingham, England, near his former home. Sturge is posed as if he were teaching, with his right hand...
by Susan | May 27, 2019 | Monuments
Henry Richard is chiefly known as an advocate of peace and international arbitration, having been secretary of the Peace Society for forty years (1848–84). He is less widely known for his other interests, especially his anti-slavery work. The statue was dedicated in...
by Susan | May 20, 2019 | Monuments
Elihu Burritt was known as the “Learned Blacksmith.” He lectured throughout New England about the joy of learning, then turned his attention to humanitarian causes for which he is famous: the abolition of slavery, the dignity of the American working man,...
