Hi, Everyone,
Yay, or nay? on this Mark Twain quote?
Someone who likes Mark Twain
is circulating the quote (shown below)
on a graphic poster on Facebook.
(When a quotation is part of a graphic poster,
a text search of the web...won't notice how often it appears.)
If Mark Twain said the quote below, where did he say it?
Here's the quote:
"If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it."
I imagine some innocent persons thinking,
"Oh no! If Mark Twain says our country's good faith system
is already gone, it must be true!"
Others may think, "Mark Twain -- what a maroon!"
I felt that statement is too hard-line.
It's one thing to say Congress
and school boards are criminals and idiots, which, I know, he did say,
in good humor(?) It's another thing -- more hardline -- to discourage
people from voting.
But, did he say it?
Thanks!
Mike Pearson
Ellensburg, Wash.
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