Now we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting, men and women fighting.

All the Ten Commandments and prayer is an acknowledgement of the Almighty God. We will not back down from that.

I consider it my duty to acknowledge God. To take down the Ten Commandments and to stop holding prayer would be a violation of that duty. I will not take down the Ten Commandments and I will not stop holding prayer.

The monument serves to remind the appellate courts and judges of the circuit and district courts of this state and members of the bar who appear before them as well as the people of Alabama who visit the Alabama Judicial Building of the truth stated in the preamble of the Alabama Constitution, that in order to establish justice we must invoke the favor and guidance of Almighty God.

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

Acknowledgment of God is not now, or ever has been, a violation of the US constitution.

I must acknowledge God. It says so in the Constitution of Alabama. It says so in the First Amendment of the Constitution.