Vintage goodness. Helen Keller with one of her pitties.
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I'm the same as I was when I was six years-old.
My name is Maggie. I'm a 21 year-old loser with a bone to pick from NJ, USA. I have yet to find an adequate title for my particular flavor of politics, but I suppose some might call me an anarchist. Here you will find artwork, news stories, rants, theory, philosophy, comics, movie stills, quotations, book excerpts, and the usual bullshit everybody posts. I'd love to learn something from you, but you have no such obligation. So sorry for my lack of eloquence, I'm not good at this sort of thing.
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"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained."
— Helen Keller (via veganemelda)
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"The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all … The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men’s rights nor women’s rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease."
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— Helen Keller, 1911
It really frustrates the hell out of me that the only public mention of Hellen Keller in any modern context is to poke fun at her disabilities. Keller helped to found the modern day American Civil Liberties Union, wrote extensively on the exploitation of the working poor (particularly those with medical issues), and was a member and contributor to the Industrial Workers of the World. She was a badass and a passionate socialist radical. I intend on posting a more in-depth background on her in the future.
Critics attempted to diminish the impact of her work by saying that her embracing socialism and activism was obviously the result of her “limits in ability and development”. All you are doing is participating in the perpetuation of that lie.
