Thought for the Day

Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, has a common reputation of being a kind of benign figure. That image doesn't hold up to closer scrutiny, though that hardly diminishes the power or relevance or wit of his work. Here's something he wrote in 1899, at the height of his celebrity-- one wishes that celebrity translated into greater influence, especially on this point (feel free to speculate on the exception noted in the comments):

"I am quite sure that (bar one) I have no race prejudices,
and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices
nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any
society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human
being-- that is enough for me; he can't be any worse."