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  1. Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!mont!pencil.cs.missouri.edu!daemon
  3. From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
  4. Subject: Today's Quote...
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul23.093512.3638@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
  6. Followup-To: alt.activism.d
  7. Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
  8. Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu
  9. Nntp-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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  11. Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 09:35:12 GMT
  12. Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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  16.     "Our democracy is but a name.  We vote? What does that mean?  It
  17.     means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not
  18.     avowed, autocrats, We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
  19.  
  20.     "You ask for votes for women.  What good can votes do when
  21.     ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and
  22.     only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000?  Have your men
  23.     with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?
  24.  
  25. [p.337, Helen Keller, 1911 letter to British suffragist]
  26.  
  27. [Submitted by Jamie Pehling [january@eskimo.celestial.com]]
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