“I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, …”

“I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible to the invention of a degraded nature, but I never saw a policeman interfere in the matter and I never saw a Chinaman righted in a court of justice for wrongs thus done him.”

— Mark Twain

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"The Treaty With China", article in The New York Tribune, (August 28, 1868). Quoted in Mark Twain's Letters, volume ii, p. 239

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Twain, Mark. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Mark Twain. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain

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