Happy birthday, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (aka “Mark Twain”) (Nov. 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)! ‪#‎Agnostic‬. ‪#‎Abolitionist‬. ‪#‎Satirist‬. Advocate for women’s rights. Anti-imperialist. Critic of organized religion. Critic of missionaries and groups that proselytize. Riverboat pilot. Author of the pacifist essay “The War Prayer,” among many other works. Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, New York.
~The Marginal Mennonite Society Heroes Series.

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