Pedestals concentrate power. They discourage dissent. What if we built Idaho community differently?

By: Jess Westhoff, Christina Bruce-Bennion

Outlets: Idaho Capital Sun

Published: April 6, 2026

Words: 957

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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When you walk through the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial at the Wassmuth Center, you are surrounded by the ideas of people who changed the world: Frederick Douglass, Mahatma Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr. Their words are etched in stone because they spoke truths that endure, truths that point toward something larger than any single life. But none of the people quoted on those walls were perfect. Some caused real …

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