Helen Keller vs. The Robber Barons
16 February 2020
The following words were shared by Helen Keller at the beginning of the last century, in response to the wealthy industrialists that dominated society at that time. While unable to see, Helen was far from blind…
“Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee…
The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labour… The majority of mankind are ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.
How can women hope to help themselves while we and our brothers are helpless against the powerful organizations which modern parties represent and which contrive to rule the people?
They rule the people because they own the means of physical life, land, and tools, and the nourishers of intellectual life, the press, the church, and the school.
Here in America the leading newspapers misrepresent in every possible way the struggles of toiling men and women who seek relief. News that reflects ill upon the employers is skillfully concealed..
Only here and there in a small and as yet uninfluential paper is the truth told about the workman and the fearful burdens under which he staggers.
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings.
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.”
-Helen Keller-
Quotes source: “Helen Keller vs. The Robber Barons”
http://creativesystemsthinking.wordpress.com/…/helen…/