So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'archpriestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and 'a modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics -- that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world --that is a different matter!
-- Helen Keller, in a letter to Socialist Party presidential candidate Robert LaFollette, 1924.
(sourced from Fred Pelka'a "Helen Keller and the FBI )
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