George Washington Cable Quotes
No people ever learned how to vote except by voting.
Citations
George W. Cable, 1844-1925, Author & Reformer, Address, The Southern Struggle for Pure Government, Massachusetts Club, Boston, Washington's Birthday, 1890
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Also used in his Message to Congress, May 25, 1967
George Washington Cable was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been called "the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century", as well as "the first modern Southern writer." In his treatment of racism, mixed-race families and miscegenation, his fiction has been thought to anticipate that of William Faulkner.