Quote #9

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 . . . You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?

More from Helen Keller

  1. I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
  2. Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
  3. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no …
  4. The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wond…
  5. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
  6. Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious…
  7. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been op…
  8. We walked down the path to the well-house, attracted by the fragrance of the honeysuckle with which it was covered. Some one was drawing wa…

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