Quote#Nature
I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly…
Quote byMark Twain · 1835–1910
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Treaty With China", article in The New York Tribune, (August 28, 1868). Quoted in Mark Twain's Letters, volume ii, p. 239.
English (original)
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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