The phrase that best identifies Twain as an anti-imperialist is: "one that sets the captive free, and one that takes a once-captive's new freedom away from him." This reflects Twain's critique of imperialism, highlighting the hypocrisy of claiming to liberate people while simultaneously oppressing them.
Select the phrase from Mark Twain's essay, "The Person Sitting in Darkness," published in February of 1901, that best identifies Twain as an anti-imperialist.
There is something curious about this-curious and unaccountable. There must be two Americas: one that sets the captive free, and one that takes a once-captive's new freedom away from him, and picks a quarrel with him with nothing to found it on; then kills him to get his land.
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