"I do not know why we respect missionaries.
Perhaps it is because proselytizers have not
intruded here from Turkey or China or Polynesia
to break our hearts by sapping away our
children's faith and winning them to the worship
of alien gods. We have lacked the opportunity
to find out how a parent feels to see his child
deriding and blaspheming the religion of
its ancestors. We have lacked the opportunity
of hearing a foreign missionary who has been
forced upon us against our will lauding
his own saints and gods and saying harsh things
about ours. If some time or other we shall
have these experiences, it will probably go hard
with the missionary. The missionary has no wish
to be an insulter, but how is he to help it?
All his propositions are insults, word them
as he may."; Mark Twain
