The Satire of Slavery “There it is: it doesn’t make any difference who we are or what we are, there’s always somebody to look down on! Somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.” Mark Twain (1835–1910), U.S. author. “Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes,” ch. 15 (written 1905; published in Which Was the Dream? ed. by John S. Tuckey, 1967). This quote says that people will always feel superior to some one different. The reason for this is that it makes people feel important and better about themselves. Slavery derived from this belief in superio....

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