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== Inclusion of Robert E. Lee ==
In an interview with Donna Price of the ''American Press'', when asked why he included both [[Robert E. Lee]] and [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] in the same book, Fellows remarked, “The reason I have both in my book is that I can see people of all races benefitting from both men. I believe that if they were both living today, they would have been fast friends. I have framed pictures of both Lee and King in my condo in Atlanta.” In the same interview, Fellows would go onto explain that reading Lee's quotes during his first depression benefitted him greatly. He also told Price that "he was convinced that (King) was the most intelligent human being ever to live."<ref name="auto1"/>
Approximately one month after the [[Charlottesville car attack]], in an op-ed in ''The Westside Journal'', Fellows revealed Robert E. Lee's little-known stance on the confederate statues where, when declining an invitation to erect statues from the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association, Lee said “I think it wiser not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavoured to obliterate the marks of civil strife and to commit to oblivion the feelings it has engendered.” <ref>Williams, Cole. [https://www.thewestsidejournal.com/columns/living-out-the-golden-rule/article_3d41bd83-da84-51bf-bfa9-5c51130a40e3.html "By Thomas Fellows Author"], "[[The West Side Journal]]", 14 September 2017. Retrieved 4 2020.</ref><ref>Thomas, Emory. ''Robert E. Lee: A Biography.'' W.W. Norton & Company. 1995. page 392.</ref><ref>Boyette, Chris Actually, Robert E. Lee was against erecting Confederate memorials [https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/16/us/robert-e-lee-statues-letters-trnd/index.html Actually, Robert E. Lee was against erecting Confederate memorials], "[[cnn.com]]", August 17, 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2020.</ref> In the op-ed, Fellows later on would go on to say that, "I do agree with Lee in that we should take down all Confederate statues. I ultimately believe this because as white people, and as Atticus Finch would encourage us, we need to step into the skin of black people and realize why they might be offended by the statues still being there. We need to live out the [[Golden Rule]]."
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